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The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.
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The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.
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Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.
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Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.
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These young people have had advantages of college, of European travel, and of economic study, but they are sustaining this shock of inaction.
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Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.
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She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.
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Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.
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In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.
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Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.