Social service and the art of healing : by Richard C. Cabot.
- Richard Clarke Cabot
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Social service and the art of healing : by Richard C. Cabot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![rectory of Charities was written in 1899 and remained unchanged until 1906, though it has been expunged in the edition now current: Personal friendship furnished to both sexes and all ages [by a certain chari- table society!] The wholesale acquisition of friends by the dozen a week is going out of fashion. Where, then, shall we look for that spiritual standing-ground on which the so- cial worker may meet those who need his help, without a patronizing air, but also without blaspheming the sacred name of friend? Is such a standing-ground al- ready anywhere in use? Where shall we look to find pleasant, healthy, manly, democratic relationships maintained be- tween persons differing sharply in inherit- ance, education, habits, and environments, between rich and poor, wise and ignorant, cultivated and uncultivated?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21044995_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
