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Settlement houses, missions and charities for the poor are failures and cannot be otherwise
Drawn from what Jack London said
What Jack London actually said
- Jack London American novelist and journalist (1876 to 1916)
Their college settlements, missions, charities, and what not, are failures. In the nature of things they cannot but be failures.
Where this was said
↗The People of the Abyss (1903)gutenberg.org
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