Excerpt from Charities for Children in the City of Mexico For the diminution of crime and the increase of happiness it is necessary to gather up the waifs and strays, and make a home for all the children of misery. Before Christ came, old servants and deformed children were exposed to die. In mighty Rome the bodies of the dead and dying floated down the Tiber past the palaces of the great and the temples of the gods. In Christian lands the gentle hand of Charity is stretched out to rescue the poor, sick and abandoned, the defective and the delinquent. Happy is the people that is ready to care for the worst off, giving sight to the blind, hearing and speech to the deaf-mute, hands and feet to the maimed, instruction to the ignorant, medicine to the sick, straightening to the deformed, virtue to the vicious, homes to the homeless and, finally, restoring them all to Society as safe and worthy members thereof. This is the high ideal which Charities for Children propose to themselves in the City of Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.