which the officials looked upon it and rendered
judgment. That an old woman of seventy-seven
years of age should die of _Self-Neglect_ is the most
optimistic way possible of looking at it It was
the old dead woman s fault that she died, and hav
ing located the responsibility, society goes con
tentedly on about its own affairs.

Of the submerged tenth, Mr. Pigou has said:
"Either through lack of bodily strength, or of
intelligence, or of fibre, or of all three, they are
inefficient or unwilling workers, and consequently
unable to support themselves... They are so
often degraded in intellect as to be incapable of
distinguishing their right from their left hand, or
of recognizing the numbers of their own houses;
their bodies are feeble and without stamina, their
affections are warped, and they scarcely know what
family life means."

Four hundred and fifty thousand is a whole lot
of people. The young fireman was only one, and
it took him some time to say his little say. I
should not like to hear them all talk at once. I
wonder if God hears them ?

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