NowtheSpeenhamlandscaledidnotrepresentsomeeasyandluxuriousstandard
ofliving；itrepresentedtheminimumonwhichitwassupposedthataman
employedinagriculturecouldsupportlife。Inthirty-fiveyearsthestandard
haddropped，accordingtoM’Culloch’sstatement，asmuchasathird，and
thisnotbecauseofwarorfamine，forin1826Englandhadhadelevenyears