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the water's side, where the ripples 

 softly brushed the sand, and waited 

 for the message of the hour. The 

 day before I had been in the racket 

 and rush of the city, where men and 

 women and children exist. Com- 

 monly, one writing of the city will 

 speak of its slums as though they 

 were its characteristics. This is not 

 the truth, however. You must go to 

 the best and busiest thoroughfares 

 and there you find the city. The slum 

 lacks soap. Take the soap away 

 from the better appearing quarter 

 and it will be a slum. The morals 

 of the slum are about equal to 

 the morals of the better appearing 

 section. To us sin and dirt look worse 

 than sin and clean raiment. To the 

 Greater One there is no difference. 



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