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Excerpt from What to Do?: Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow
A voice from Russia - the voice, as it were, of a prophet -has proclaimed another and inexorable way.
A nobleman, rich and famous, a popular novelist, a great land-owner, with every thing in his grasp that ambition might suggest, found himself face to face with this question.
He had lived the idle, luxurious life of the upper classes, the world over, and thought to compound with his conscience by a dilettante system of money-giving. With this charitable object in view, he investigated the poverty of Moscow, which is exactly like the poverty of every other city,-paris, London, New York, Berlin, Boston, - and atter systematic examination he came to the conclusion that the mere giving of money only added to the existing evil.
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A voice from Russia - the voice, as it were, of a prophet -has proclaimed another and inexorable way.
A nobleman, rich and famous, a popular novelist, a great land-owner, with every thing in his grasp that ambition might suggest, found himself face to face with this question.
He had lived the idle, luxurious life of the upper classes, the world over, and thought to compound with his conscience by a dilettante system of money-giving. With this charitable object in view, he investigated the poverty of Moscow, which is exactly like the poverty of every other city,-paris, London, New York, Berlin, Boston, - and atter systematic examination he came to the conclusion that the mere giving of money only added to the existing evil.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Lyof N. Tolstoi
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266202691
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 252
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Lyof N. Tolstoi
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781330479698
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 254
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