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Title: Humanity in the City

Author: E. H. Chapin

Release Date: August 27, 2008 [EBook #26441]

Language: English

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HUMANITY IN THE CITY.

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HUMANITY IN THE CITY.

BY THE

REV. E. H. CHAPIN.

NEW YORK:
DE WITT & DAVENPORT, PUBLISHERS,
160 & 162 NASSAU STREET.

BOSTON:
ABEL TOMPKINS, 38 & 40 CORNHILL.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
DE WITT & DAVENPORT,

In the Clerk's Office of the U. S. District Court
for the Southern District of New York

G. W. ALEXANDER,
BINDER,
9 Spruce Street.

W. H. TINSON.
STEREOTYPER,
24 Beekman Street.

TAWS, RUSSELL & CO.
PRINTERS,
No. 26 Beekman Street.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. THE LESSONS OF THE STREET 13

II. MAN AND MACHINERY 39

III. THE STRIFE FOR PRECEDENCE 65

IV. THE SYMBOLS OF THE REPUBLIC 93

V. THE SPRINGS OF SOCIAL LIFE 123

VI. THE ALLIES OF THE TEMPTER 157

VII. THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR 187

VIII. THE HELP OF RELIGION 223

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PREFACE.

A volume like the present hardly requires the formality of a preface. It
is the continuation of a series al