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CHAPTER IV
HOMELESSNESS
From time to time the present age is criti-
cised, as if its corruption contrasted with the
moral strictness of earlier periods. Such
charges are as crude and as groundless as is
most of the same kind of criticism that is com-
mon to every generation of man’s history.
They have been repeated ever since man began
to strive consciously for other ends than the
momentary gratification of his undisciplined
impulses.
One need only to consult the men of the
present generation and the still living repre-
sentatives of the past generation, to be assured
that bad conduct at school is not characteristic
of our time. Let any one read the account of
life at universities in earlier periods when the
younger students were of the same age as
schoolboys in high schools and it will soon be
plain that the cause of the evil is not modern
literature nor modern belief.
The really direct causes of this difficulty
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