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    Henry Mayhew

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    The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. ↗


    — Henry Mayhew

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    The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. ↗


    — Henry Mayhew

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    There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. ↗


    — Henry Mayhew

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    We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. ↗


    — Henry Mayhew

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    We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. ↗


    — Henry Mayhew

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    “Buy buy buy buy buy-- bu-u-uy!” cries the butcher. The Punch years gave Mayhew the opportunity to meet talented illustrators who he later employed to work from daguerreotypes on London Labour and the London Poor. ” “Here‘s ha‘p‘orths” shouts the perambulating confectioner.

    Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English social researcher journalist playwright and advocate of reform. He is also known for his work as a social researcher publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle that was later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor (1851) a groundbreaking and influential survey of the city's poor.

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