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Excerpt from Humanizing the Greater City's Charity: The Work of the Department of Public Charities of the City of New York
There is the charity which comes from the head but not from the heart. This kind Of charity covers a multitude of sins. It reaches forward the right hand openly to give and backward the left hand secretly to receive. It substitutes itself for justice. It builds orphan asylums, but makes orphans. It supports widows' pensions, but makes widows. It builds playgrounds, but exploits child labor. It subserves social welfare to' serve its private ends.
In the work of the Mitchel administration during the last four years, there has been a rare example Of the charity that comes from the heart and the head working together. Prevention as well as relief has been the keynote Of its social Welfare-program.
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