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Show Alluring Little Vice. Of all the pleasanter vices, the Idealistic Ideal-istic interpretation of the middle ages is perhaps the least, noxious and tha most, alluring. One turns but too gladly glad-ly from the controversies that rage around our own day to the graces and humanities of medieval charity. Here are no economics, here Is no organization. Men gave from Impulse, and liked to think of those who received only as the blessed occasions of good will. The sick poor were "the sore members mem-bers of Christ." Even the leper begged with the halo of the Gospel around him, and the dukes of those days took warning from the Dives of the Miracle play. |