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According to E. K. Hunt, classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were " egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic ".
Therefore, the only motivation for labour was either the possibility of great reward or fear of hunger.
This belief led classical liberal politicians to pass the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, which limited the provision of social assistance.
Seeing society as atomistic, they believed that society was no more than the sum of its individual members.
These views departed from earlier views of society as a family and, therefore, greater than the sum of its members.
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