improvidence

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Rose-gardens 78   Of Improvidence in Marriage in the Middle Classes; nd of the advisable Restrictions of it.

From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John

Improvidence is the rule: there is little effort to meet remote contingencies.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

Improvidence, and misrule, which had been working and growing for hundreds of years, had at last brought the famine fever, and even the righteous must perish by it. 

From Sermons on National Subjects by Kingsley, Charles

Improvidence is cruelty to women and children; though the cruelty is born of ignorance.

From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel

Improvidence and fermage have sounded the knell of the old landed gentry.

From Roumania Past and Present by Samuelson, James