The body's satisfaction, and no more,
Is used for argument against the soul's.
Mrs. Browning.
Though selfishness and suffering still abound everywhere, the attention which is now given to the care of the sick and infirm through unnumbered public and private philanthropies, gives expression to a sense of brotherhood and practical sympathy which speaks for the expanding influence of the Christ-ideal, and which marks this age as splendidly humanitarian.
