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Mystic London

- Or, Phases of Occult Life in the British Metropolis

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. OE all the protean forms of misery that meet us in the bosom of that stony-hearted stepmother, London, there is none that appeals so directly to our sym pathies as the spectacle of a destitute child. In the case of the grown man or woman, sorrow and suffering are often traceable to the faults, or at best to the misfortunes of the sufferers themselves; but in the case of the child they are mostly, if not always, vicarious. The fault, or desertion, or death of the natural protectors, turns loose upon the desert of our streets those nomade hordes of Bedouins, male and female, Whose presence is being made especially pal pable just now, and whose reclamation isa perplexing, yet still a hopeful problem. In the case of the adult Arab, there is a life's work to undo, and the facing of that fact it is which makes some of our bravest workers drop their hands in despair. With these young Arabs, on the contrary, it is only the wrong B.

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  • SprogEngelsk
  • Udgivelsesdato27-11-2019
  • ISBN139780243720392
  • Forlag Forgotten Books
  • FormatPDF

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