Now, the latter contains one needy person to every
seven inhabitants, while the former has only one to every
twenty-eight. That does not prevent the average duration of
life, even in Paris, from increasing, as M. Fix has very
correctly observed.
At Mulhouse the probabilities of average life are twenty-nine
years for children of the well-to-do class and TWO years for
those of the workers; in 1812 the average life in the same
locality was twenty-five years, nine months, and twelve days,
while in 1827 it was not over twenty-one years and nine months.
And yet throughout France the average life is longer. What does
this mean?
M. Blanqui, unable to explain so much prosperity and so much
poverty at once, cries somewhere: "Increased production does not
mean additional wealth. . . . Poverty, on the contrary, becomes
the wider spread in proportion to the concentration of
industries. There must be some radical vice in a system which
guarantees no security either to capital or labor, and which
seems to multiply the embarrassments of producers at the same
time that it forces them to multiply their products.
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