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one room, permits familiarity with phases of life that accustom children to regard them as proper normal conditions. Purity is often unknown, the brutality of a low nature is easily aroused, and children know and do what seems impossible.

Certainly these three causes of evil are within the scope of human remedy. While science and political economy are puzzling over the formula of their methods of procedure, individual benevolence is endeavoring to find means of prevention in individual cases. These causes abound among the lowest ranks of sin, and call forth compassion equally with abhorrence. Removed from them, another range of life is met with, due to other circumstances, though all these social circles of sin intermingle, and it is hard to say where one begins and another ends. This aristocracy among the erring is one of its most painful features, and yet often most touching in the unexpected kindnesses rendered by one of

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