The City Of Today

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Term Paper Title	The City Of Today
# of Words	2250
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	9

The City Of Today

Glorious, glorious England. As the Empire spreads some say  "so does its
glory"; others mumble of the price which we pay for our greatness.  Many
of us Londoners have read, if not discussed,  the intriguing debate
transpiring between  Sir Andrew Ure and Sir James Phillips Kay.  Are the
cities of great England truly representative of the jewels in Her
Majesty's Crown? Or are they the stain of exploitation and abuse that
some have proclaimed?
        Sir James Phillips Kay, an M.D. at Edinburgh and the Secretary
to the Manchester Board of Health, has recently published a work titled,
"The Moral And Physical Conditions of the Working-Class Employed in
Cotton Manufacturing in Manchester." (Kay/Ure Debate, Handout)  He
argues quite persuasively about  those poor wretches living in the most
hideous of conditions.  Half the blame he attributes to the Irish and
the other half to the environment of an industrialised city.    The
Irish immigrants have brought to Manchester a system called "cottier
farming".  Sir James argues that this system is responsible for the
"demoralisation and barbarism" of the working-class.  If that is not bad
enough, the potato has been introduced as a main article of food.
Influenced by the Irish subsistence living, the working-class are
abandoning those values which promote increasing comfort.  They
seemingly have given up the hope of betterment and adopted hopelessness.
        Sir James does well in his description of the living conditions
of the working class is living in.  The mere thought of such suffering
and misery is shocking to the soul.
        The problem Kay argues, is caused by combinations of poor living
and working conditions, lack of education, influence by a lesser culture
and the presence of great immorality.  This recently published work  is
a plea to the Capitalist, to convince him to concern himself with his
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workers.
        Andrew Mearns, another prominent fellow on these matters goes
into even greater detail in his work, "The Bitter Cry of Outcast
London".  Making a study of our city, he has reported, with astonishing
detail, that the filth present in Manchester can be found in this city!
        Mr. Mearns makes his argument to the church in his call to unite
an...

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