In A Theory of Eradicating Begging, for example, he said that people did not fall into begging as a result of their own laziness or lack of determination. "Begging is the result of the fallen state and decadence of modern civilization and the blind following of others on the part of modern man."
例如他在「乞食撲滅論」中提到，乞丐的產生，絕非人們懶惰或一己的意志薄弱等單純因素，而是「現代文明凋落、頹廢，及現代文明人的無思慮、盲從所致」。