Charity assumes evil institutions and customs to be a part of “Divine Providence,” and tearfully works away at taking care of the wreckage; justice regards injustice everywhere, custom-buttressed and respectable or not, as the work of the devil, and vigorously attacks it.
Charity is timid and is always passing the collection-box; justice is unafraid and asks no alms, no patrons, no benevolent support.
“It is presumed,” says Henry Seton Merriman, “that the majority of people are willing enough to seek the happiness of others; which desire leads the individual to interfere with his neighbor’s affairs, while it burdens society with a thousand associations for the welfare of mankind or the raising of the masses.”
The best part of the human race does not want help, nor favor, nor charity; it wants a fair chance and a square deal.
Charity is man’s kindness.
Justice is God’s.
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Compiled for Wm. H. Wise by John T. Hoyle, Professor of Practical English, Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Note.—In this index, all notations refer first to the volume, and then to the page of the volume. Thus, Will Power, I, 12, means that the reference to Will Power will be found on page 12 of Volume I. The titles of the Essays are in every instance printed in italic capitals and lower case; thus, Great Man, The, I, 28, means that the essay appearing under that title is to be found in Volume I, on page 28.
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