This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... XVI THE NOVICE "These two weeks burst the shell of Hester's intuition that, for her class, relief of distress was less goodness than polite evasion of the issue." HESTER KINZIE became a factor in the strike from the moment of her conclusion that treatment of causes rather than effects is the way to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... XVI THE NOVICE "These two weeks burst the shell of Hester's intuition that, for her class, relief of distress was less goodness than polite evasion of the issue." HESTER KINZIE became a factor in the strike from the moment of her conclusion that treatment of causes rather than effects is the way to social betterment. Graham's talks had not struck the same note in the minds of the two girls, but they had produced similar results. In Elsie the stimulus of a man weighing conventionalities in his own scales, and dedicating his strength to purposes appraised at his own valuation, quickened dormant protest against the passivity of her own life, and brought a return of unabashed will to work. Graham personified to Hester her more special problem. He made it real and distinct and insistent. His solution could not be taken over bodily into her program of life, but it had crystallized her fluid desire to find a solution of her own. He seemed to be wrestling with the question, What is the best work that one can set one's hand to who has inherited the power and privilege that go with wealth? She had long been inquiring without effectively answering, Having money has one different duties from one having none? The reports that came from Chicago lent force to the habitual impulse of both girls to relieve human need. On the return trip they resolved to make a start in finding something to do that might help to improve the situation. Like most well disposed people with healthy social instincts, their imagination halted with cases. It did not press farther into the meaning of cases as fair fruits of conditions. They offered their services as friendly visitors in the Associated Charities district that included the Avery works. It was the closest approach...
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