Where is this text found in "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens?

"The workhouses operated on the principle that poverty was the consequence of laziness and that the dreadful conditions in the workhouse would inspire the poor to better their own circumstances"------- please give me the chapter and the area in the chapter (i.e.- 7th paragraph, very beginning... etc.) first person to correctly give me a clear answer gets the ten points, thanks!Where is this text found in "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens?
I have searched for this particular phrase right in the text of Oliver Twist and then through all of Charles Dickens' works; nothing comes up. You can search here http://www.online-literature.com/dickens… through Oliver Twist or http://www.online-literature.com/dickens… through all of his works that are online. I'm getting nothing. As the other poster said, it IS in sparknotes but is NOT a quote from Oliver Twist (rather an explanation).



You should read the first few chapters (you can read them and the entire book at the above links), especially chapter 2 to see some of Dickens' view of the workhouse and poor laws.



BTW: from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oliver/the…

"The Failure of Charity

Much of the first part of Oliver Twist challenges the organizations of charity run by the church and the government in Dickens’s time. The system Dickens describes was put into place by the Poor Law of 1834, which stipulated that the poor could only receive government assistance if they moved into government workhouses. Residents of those workhouses were essentially inmates whose rights were severely curtailed by a host of onerous regulations. Labor was required, families were almost always separated, and rations of food and clothing were meager. The workhouses operated on the principle that poverty was the consequence of laziness and that the dreadful conditions in the workhouse would inspire the poor to better their own circumstances. Yet the economic dislocation of the Industrial Revolution made it impossible for many to do so, and the workhouses did not provide any means for social or economic betterment. Furthermore, as Dickens points out, the officials who ran the workhouses blatantly violated the values they preached to the poor. Dickens describes with great sarcasm the greed, laziness, and arrogance of charitable workers like Mr. Bumble and Mrs. Mann. In general, charitable institutions only reproduced the awful conditions in which the poor would live anyway. As Dickens puts it, the poor choose between “being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.”Where is this text found in "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens?
Someone's pulling your leg, I think. That's a direct quote from the Spark Notes book for "Oliver Twist." At least, that's what I got from a web search.Where is this text found in "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens?
Diana is absolutely right. Even if it wasn't so obvious from a Google search, anyone familiar with the writing of this outstanding author would recognize instantly that this wasn't his style of writing. You're on a wild goose chase, I'm afraid.