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He looks like an advertisement for a misfit tailor, and he's fairly putrid with philanthropy." Elsie gave a quick burst of laughter. Then she pretended to frown. "Chauncy," she said, "you have the most abominable way of putting things that I ever heard. What would you say to the youngsters from the Clergy House that I have in train? They're perfect lambs, and they love each other like twins.

Trades-unions adopt various devices for raising wages, and those who give their time to philanthropy are interested in these devices, and wish them success. They fix their minds entirely on the workmen for the time being in the trade, and do not take note of any other workmen as interested in the matter.

On the contrary, all experience testifies that Religion is the only sure spring of philanthropy, and that, on the whole, none have a sweeter enjoyment of the present life than those who can look abroad on the works of Nature and say, "My Father made them all," and who can look forward to death itself with "a hope full of immortality."

"I told you to help deserving young men," remarked Uncle John, with a scowl at his brother-in-law. "And how can I tell whether they're desarving or not?" retorted Major Doyle, fiercely. "Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?

England, with unsurpassed tyranny, had sent out one of her brutal modern inventions, and threatened us all with blood and gore and murder if we did not give up our beneficent modern theory. It was the malevolent influence of the intellect applied to brute force, dominating its benevolent influence as applied to philanthropy.

It believes that individual initiative and private philanthropy will solve them that we ought to repeal many of the things we have done and go back, for instance, to the old gold standard, or stop all this business of old age pensions and unemployment insurance, or repeal the Securities and Exchange Act, or let monopolies thrive unchecked return, in effect, to the kind of government that we had in the twenties.

There are other fortunes that have been laid at my feet. But I wanted Jack, and I knew Jack wanted me. Dear boy, he never could realise how utterly unhappy intellectual poverty would have made me and how my unhappiness would have reacted on him in the end. In reality this great and beneficent philanthropy was finally to blight both our love and our lives. "What was I to do?

"'Exactly, says I. 'Then why do the master minds of finance and philanthropy, says I, 'charge us $2 to get into a race-track and let us into a library free? Is that distilling into the masses, says I, 'a correct estimate of the relative value of the two means of self-culture and disorder? "'You are arguing outside of my faculties of sense and rhetoric, says Bill.

If we "shall reap as we sow," it declared that we cannot give anything to anybody and therefore philanthropy is a delusion. But I taught rationalism in guile one day by which it thoroughly exhibited the absurdity of its teaching. Its continual song was, "You dare not believe what you cannot conceive to be true."

"You can put it down to anything you like," he said, "except philanthropy." West considered a moment. "Very well, sir," he said finally, his aggressive tone slightly modified. "In that case I will come with you." He turned about, and thrust his arms into the coat Babbacombe held for him, turned up the collar, and without a backward glance, stepped into the waiting motor.