Excerpt from On the Christian and Economic Polity of a Nation, More Especially With Reference to Its Large Towns
There is a great deal: of philanthropy afloat in this our day. At' no period, perhaps, in the history of the' human mind, did a desire of doing good so earnest, meet with a spirit of inquiry so eager, after the best and like liest methods of carrying the desire into accomplishment. Amid all that looks dark and menacing, in the present exhibitions of society, this, at least, must. Be acknowledged, -that' never was there a greater quantity of thought embarked on those speculations which, whether with Christian, or merely economical writers, have the one common object of promoting the worth and comfort of our species.
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Thomas Chalmers, was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century churchman".
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