New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

Duty of Active Benevolence. No man existing, be his station what it may, is exempted from the duty of inquiring what good he can do to others. That man must have seen little of mankind who is ignorant of human misery; yet such knowledge is not to be acquired by those who converse merely with persons of their own rank; they must enter into the cottages and garrets of the poor; they must see them naked, hungry, and thirsty, exposed to the inclemencies of the weather, to the sudden attack or slow wasting of disease; they must see the effect of their unruly passions, and their grovelling vices; they must be acquainted with all the consequences of ignorance and poverty. Evils like these must be known to be remedied; yet the generality of the upper ranks know little what their inferiors suffer.