text:  We are very far indeed from saying that enough has been done in this way: no one is better aware that the vast debt which the prosperous wealth of Britain owes in this respect to its suffering indigence is still in great part undischarged and that till it is taken up and put on a proper footing _by the state_ it never can be completely liquidated;--still more has been done to discharge it during the last thirty years than in the whole previous centuries which have elapsed since the Reformation