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220 CHARITIES FOR WOMEET.
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PRESTON HOSPITAL, SHROPSHIRE. t The ains...
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Such This Been Very Referred Interesting...
produce entirely beneficial ? Unquestionably there is much truth in the austere verdict of modern economistsif we take the principle on
Its abstract and d priori grounds , that , the resultant effects of all charity are more deleterious than otherwise , but this is abstracting *
from the consideration those collateral influences which so change the oriinal aspect of all princiles . There can be no doubt that
benevolence g as a moral cause will p assume new features as time pro-That as education becomes hiher in qualityand more
diffused gresses . , the prudential motives of human g action will be , enlarged , and prevision made the basis of possible effects . So far we may
proceed , but the contingent circumstances of human fate no man can foresee , at least as he is at present constituted , and thus there
_Trill always remain , scope enough for the pure benevolence of noble hearts and enlarged minds . '' Charitable funds '' said Lord Brougham ,
, " prove harmless , and may be moreover beneficial , exactly in proportion as their application is limited to combinations of
circumstances out of the ordinary course of calculation Thus they may safely be appropriated to the support of persons disabled from
working , by accident or by incurable malady , as the blind and the maimedand we even extend the rule to hospitals generally
for the cure , of diseases may , nor can orphan hospitals be excepted on the whole In like manner , although the existence of a
certain provision for old age independent of individual saving comes within the descrition of the mischiefit is nevertheless far less
detrimental than p the existence of an , equal fund for maintaining young persons , and more especially for supporting children . "
The Charitable Trusts Bill has from the period of its passing effected great good , and some of its clauses are very excellent . The
one protective of trustees from unjust complaint may be instanced amongst others ; for many of the endowments strictly speaking are
private charities , and to the trustees of these a certain amount of private judgment should be conceded ; for whilst the state can only
act by general rules in all questions appertaining to public charity , private charitcan make its own distinctionsand often much more
wisely than government y in . such cases could . , It is doubtful if the present Charity Commissioners are invested with sufficient power
for effective action upon all the cases which come before them for settlement or adjudicationbut many excellent reformations have
been effected , though many , and wide spread abuses still await the corrective hand of justiceas well as that administrative wisdom
, which may bring past bequests and present needs into harmony
with each other .
220 Charities For Womeet.
220 CHARITIES FOR _WOMEET .
Preston Hospital, Shropshire. T The Ains...
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for the most part very varied and . beautiful . Tourists would do
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/4/
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