Excerpt from Vicarious Philanthropy The early history of the New York University Settlement further illustrates what I am contending. Its financial support was for a longtime the most meagre; and though men of character, ability and education were there making a struggle to preserve the work begun in that outcast region, they were perpetually stared in the face by failure, (1) from lack of the sim plest thing in the world, quantities of which were a few streets off in super-excess and waste, money. Toynbee Hall in rich England (the happy land of the unemployed who pray to stony ears) has prefaced an appeal for help with a statement of its narrow circumstances, within twelve months. When anything is contributed it is on condition that there shall be no exposure ofthe luxurious causation of poverty, no making of any allusion about wealth and extravagance pointed enough to show recon struction where to strike. So was it in Philadelphia where there was a Guild, and afterward the beginnings ofa Social University. But the forwarders of this experiment toward perfection applied their minds and hearts to the cause of the epidemic of ignorance and suffering they were trying to stem, and knowing it to be inequitable riches, and saying, Irrigate the dry land with these riches, soon found their starry career checked by the treasurer and secretary of the gold-furnishing contingent of the enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.