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The People of the Abyss

CHAPTER XXVI--DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
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He does not play with palliatives.

He traces social viciousness and misery to their sources.

He removes the progeny of the gutter-folk from their pestilential environment, and gives them a healthy, wholesome environment in which to be pressed and prodded and moulded into men.
When the people who try to help cease their playing and dabbling with day nurseries and Japanese art exhibits and go back and learn their West End and the sociology of Christ, they will be in better shape to buckle down to the work they ought to be doing in the world.

And if they do buckle down to the work, they will follow Dr.Barnardo's lead, only on a scale as large as the nation is large.

They won't cram yearnings for the Beautiful, and True, and Good down the throat of the woman making violets for three farthings a gross, but they will make somebody get off her back and quit cramming himself till, like the Romans, he must go to a bath and sweat it out.


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