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ai^.d sufferings of other peoples. A great calamity 

 in one part of a country or even in a foreign coun- 

 try sends a shudder over the rest of the country 

 and even to foreign countries. People pour out 

 their services and their money for the afilicted al- 

 most as they would to brothers. It is beautiful. 

 The systematic and public care of orphans, the 

 old, the blind, the deaf, and the crippled is another 

 vast expression of sympathy. 



As soon as we get far enough along to rear- 

 range our system of industry so as to give every- 

 body a somewhat equal chance to live and enjoy 

 life, we shall give another vast expression to hu- 

 man sympathy; and a much-needed one. We co- 

 operate in producing what we need, some of us do- 

 ing one thing and others doing another thing, but 

 the distribution of the products is haphazard and 

 primitive. It is much as if we should all go to 

 Work and make a bagful of things that we need, 

 everybody working hard to get the bag filled, and 

 then engaging in a general scuffle and fight to see 

 who is to get what is in the bag. The strong and 

 the selfish get more than they need, and the weak 

 and modest get little or nothing. This shows a 

 lack of both sympathy and sense. 



Conscience is sometimes called the *^ moral 

 sense.'' It is that within us which assists us in 

 recognizing right and wrong. Conscience is very 

 weak in savages, many of whom have almost no 

 ideas of right and wrong. ** Conscience,'' says 

 Burton, **does not exist in East Africa. And re- 



