Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

He joined with Francis Place of Westminster and other philanthropists to help improve the condition of the working classes labouring especially to establish schools for them on the Lancastrian system and forming savings banks. Between 1808 and 1811 he travelled around England and Europe and in 1812 publiJoseph Humed a blank verse translation of The Inferno. Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP born in Montrose Angus.

Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP born in Montrose Angus.