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ABOUT PEOPLE.

not be unwise to ask whether greater personal inspection of the nature of evil and increased personal watchfulness over the unfortunate may not aid in lessening more rapidly its extent. Such oversight will recognize that there is as great a variety of temperament and character as there is of persons will go to them when their room is at zero; when they have little food for days together, and in ninety cases out of a hundred are addicted to drink; will find some tender spot in their nature; will first improve their physical condition, then procure them employment, and finally will endeavor to arouse their moral nature. It is to the application of the work-remedy that every one should contribute. We must be willing to receive them back into our employment because they need us.

Surely, want of occupation, vanity, carelessness of behavior, and temperamental predisposition, can better be controlled by the person than by the State. Rescue work within

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