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The Family
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Soup-kitchen; it certainly will not be a Family. An institution which needs no subscription list for its support, no committee for its management, which is both self-contained and self-propagating, seems so independent of our conscious efforts that we are apt to forget how large a part of human life is devoted to its maintenance, and how large a part of human life depends upon it for physical and moral existence. From time to time, it is true, statesmen and economists have recognised its deep significance for political and social movements; and I offer the book partly from this point of view, but partly also as a tribute to a most excellent institution.
Soup-kitchen; it certainly will not be a Family. An institution which needs no subscription list for its support, no committee for its management, which is both self-contained and self-propagating, seems so independent of our conscious efforts that we are apt to forget how large a part of human life is devoted to its maintenance, and how large a part of human life depends upon it for physical and moral existence. From time to time, it is true, statesmen and economists have recognised its deep significance for political and social movements; and I offer the book partly from this point of view, but partly also as a tribute to a most excellent institution.
354 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
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