...if they were willing to work hard and use their native initiative. There was no assumption that the "the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate" were locked into place by divine will: "God made them high or lowly, and ordered their estate." time,...

...possible. State provision for education and welfare were very new ideas in the early Victorian period. 'The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate' described what many Victorians would accept as a God-given order. Even the more enlightened employers,...

...narrative, one that was still being celebrated hundreds of years after the system had begun to crumble: "The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / He made them high or lowly, / And ordered their estate," as the Victorian hymnal tells us. Finer...

...well summed up in a now rarely-sung verse from Mrs Alexander's hymn 'All things Bright and Beautiful': The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, He made them high and lowly, and ordered their estate. According to the main traditions of the Ancient...

...beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate....made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate. Emerson and Thoreau hated slavery. Thoreau harbored runaways, championed John Brown, and went to jail...

...already fallen in his favor. Like all conservatives, he is only too happy to sing the hymn that goes: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly, And ordered their estate. 2At any other point on the boundary of X, the disadvantaged player remains the...

...heathen, turk, or jew; Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. — William Blake The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate. — Cecil Frances Alexander Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive....

...and, indeed, ordained by God. Just think of the words of the hymn 'All things bright and beautiful': 'The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.' These words epitomize the ideological function of religion: it encourages the...

...us; most simply accept them as there. In our behavior we seem to echo the lines of a popular hymn: The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly and ordered their estate. All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, All things wise...

...in Darwin's century by CF Alexander in her h лпп "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (1848): TI e rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, Ar d order'd their estate. Looking at evolution historically, we can see that by threa ening basic...