It's a curiosity of British history that 19th Century radicals, dissenters, etc., tended to oppose government efforts to help the poor, etc;
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Also curious that utilitarianism was part of that story - via a belief that the greatest happiness would accrue via self-sufficiency.
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Nonconformist religion also part of the ugly picture. Fear that state help would promote fecklessness & ungodliness.
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Not sure why I'm mentioning any of this... except the more I've learned about history, the less inclined I am to accept Whig historiography.
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People on Twitter condemn others as being "on the wrong side of history", but it's ahistorical, teleological fetishism.
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'ahistorical, teleological fetishism' is my non-Yorkshire phrase of the day
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I've no idea what it means, but it sounded good last night to my sleep deprived mind! 
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