“Poverty … allows them no room to breathe, to grow, to expand. It gives no time for spiritual interests. It chokes back the religious instincts. It offers no opportunities for the play of the higher energies. They are too tired to think, or to read, or to pray.”

Our Neighbors (1911)

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British theologian 1847–1918

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