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have been willing to share equally with their less fortunate brethren. Such a partition would then, it is true, have resulted merely in disappointment. The baser elements of society had first to be sifted out. It was chiefly the dim perception of this that rendered many so hopeless of improvement. The gradual advance perceptible, in spite of many fluctuations, in the history of our race since that time, was the effect, not of any far-reaching plan, but of the earnest endeavors of earnest men to combat evils immediately pressing on their attention. At last came a time when so much had been effected, that the task could be completed on a prescribed plan, and has since been carried towards completion with a minimum waste of effort."
