The students of Glasgow University Union were treated to a sample of Mr. Hilaire Belloc in his rarest manner-in an address upon Poverty, "that circumstance to which much the greater part of you are doomed." No poor man can sink into lethargy and sloth, he declared. The great advantage was that the poor man soon gave up the horrible vice of lying, the natural habit of man, which, however, he found of no help to him. Only the poor, and generally the old, told the truth. The first rule for achieving po-very was therefore to learn to tell the truth, both unpleasant and pleasant. Gambling upon horses if they were unacquainted with the movements and nature of the animal was another royal road. The third was the exercise of judgment. Two Cabinet Ministers, both very rich and both very wicked, agreed after a short discussion that judgment Was more eftiacious than hard work for attaining poverty. In good judgment they were prognosticating events far hence, whereas in gambling they were dealing only with events a day or so distant; therefore good judgment was the-better way of the two. In a word, the three ways were, in order of precedence, good judgment, telling the truth, and hard work. There was no good rule for escaping poverty; it was a matter of luck; it just happened. They got a berth, a regular income, increasing charges, then Marx imposed inflation, and they achieved their end.
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