English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon.

  • Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.
Date:
1897
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Credit: English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    law had discarded needless inequalities from its treatment of the different sorts of private property, it would be in effect an equal law as between the varieties of charitable intention. The treatment which has been deemed just for our universities and colleges in regard of benefactions intended for them, and which they, with certain very few bodies of different purpose, have hitherto had as an exclusive privilege, would then be extended, as of common right, to the many hundreds of other and kindred institutions, which, in their various ways of voluntary service—medical, scholastic, and other, are equally conferring popular good in all parts of the country, and are amongst the most influential of agencies for the physical, intellectual, and moral welfare of the people. Surely the equality of law is in itself an object to be desired. Let all institutions, properly and responsibly organised for such functions of beneficence, have the fullest liberty to receive whatsoever means of support the wealthier parts of the population may be willing to bestow; free from all those wanton hindrances which the legislators of 1736 raised against them; but subject, of course, to such general conditions as the law for the time being would presumably always have in force with regard to the administration aud control of charitable trusts.