20 March 2013

Quote of the Day: 19th Century Sewers

"Suffering and evil are nature’s admonitions; they cannot be got rid of; and the impatient efforts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation, before benevolence has learned their object and their end, have always been more productive of evil than good."

-The Economist, regarding proposals for a sewer in London, 1848


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