"Even a barbarian from the nineteenth century can appreciate that.

It is a very graceful way of disguising charity, and must be grateful to the feelings of its recipients." "Charity!" repeated Dr.Leete.

"Did you suppose that we consider the incapable class we are talking of objects of charity ?" "Why, naturally," I said, "inasmuch as they are incapable of self-support." But here the doctor took me up quickly.
"Who is capable of self-support ?" he demanded.

"There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support.

In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family cooperation, each individual may possibly support himself, though even then for a part of his life only; but from the moment that men begin to live together, and constitute even the rudest sort of society, self-support becomes impossible.