These things are demanded because by the present arrangements the progress of compulsion is hampered, the deserving and independent poor are inequitably dealt with, and the cost of collecting the fees is out of all proportion to their value when received.
"Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day"
Alfred Farthing Robbins
The "Death duties" at present are inequitably levied; great fortunes do not pay as large a proportion as, relatively to small ones, they ought to do: and landed property is lightly let off compared with other forms.
"Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day"
Alfred Farthing Robbins
Government, for instance, which makes fatal mistakes; law, which so often bears hardly and inequitably in individual cases.
"A History of Freedom of Thought"
John Bagnell Bury