(1) Dit beginsel werd in 1834 door de Engelse « Poor Law Commission » als volgt omschreven : « The first and most essential of all conditions (...) is that his [the pauper's] situation on the whole shall not be made really or apparently so eligible as the situation of the independent labourer of the lowest class.
(1) Ce principe a été décrit comme suit par la « Poor Law Commission » anglaise en 1834: « The first and most essential of all conditions (...) is that his [the pauper's] situation on the whole shall not be made really or apparently so eligible as the situation of the independent labourer of the lowest class.