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Excerpt from The Poor in Great Cities: Their Problems and What Is Doing to Solve Them
The conditions are quite different now. Awakening is not needed. Every thinking man has thoughts upon this matter. And along with this realization has come practical experiment, in many places and on an immense scale, toward a solution. Americans especially are to be congratulated on the fact that they receive the question, at the moment when the conditions of their large cities begin to make it vital to them, with much of the light of older ex perience upon it, and (even with the peculiar difficulties with which unrestricted immigration complicates it) in by no means its most hopeless form. It is at our doors; but not in a shape, if we recog nize fully its difficulties and take hold of it in earnest, where we may not hope to prevent its dominating us in any sense. Te have Mulberry Street tenements and Hell's Kitchens, sporadic and the growth of a generation or two; it is largely our own affair whether we shall some time have tom-all-alones as a permanent institu tion, or the century-old sediment of Whitechapel. 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.
