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nate, and such help can be accepted with entire self- 

 respect. 



The aim to set before ourselves in trying to aid 

 one another is to give that aid under conditions 

 which will harm no man's self-respect, and which 

 will teach the less fortunate how to help themselves 

 as their stronger brothers do. To give such aid it 

 is necessary not only to possess the right kind of 

 heart, but also the right kind of head. Hardness 

 of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful 

 whether, in the long run, it works more damage 

 than softness of head. At any rate, both are unde 

 sirable. The prerequisite to doing good work in 

 the field of philanthropy in the field of social ef 

 fort, undertaken with one's fellows for the com 

 mon good is that it shall be undertaken in a spirit 

 of broad sanity no less than of broad and loving 

 charity. 



The other day I picked up a little book called 

 "The Simple Life," written by an Alsatian, Charles 

 Wagner, and he preaches such wholesome, sound 

 doctrine that I wish it could be used as a tract 

 throughout our country. To him the whole prob 

 lem of our complex, somewhat feverish modern life 

 can be solved only by getting men and women to 

 lead better lives. He sees that the permanence of 

 liberty and democracy depends upon a majority of 

 the people being steadfast in morality and in that 

 good plain sense which, as a national attribute, 

 comes only as the result of the slow and painful 

 labor of centuries, and which can be squandered in 



