“If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”
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Charles Trevelyan
Charles Trevelyan was a British historian and politician, born on April 2, 1807, and died on June 19, 1886. He had a significant influence in the fields of British history and politics. more
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