Word: richeson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poor woman in Canton. Now supposing this to be a fact attested by unbiased witnesses, would it be fair--unless it can be proved that it is an everyday occurrence--to condemn a people wholesale from one instance? As well consider the recent case of the New England clergyman Richeson as typical and condemn the whole American society! And apart from that, are there not even in the civilized West instances of suffering--unrelieved suffering--so heartrending as to lead some of the most thoughtful of men to turn pessimistic and pronounce modern civilization as a veritable curse...