At any other moment an association for these purposes would take its place, by general consent, among philanthropic experiments; but Crime is always suspicious, and shakes, like a sick man, merely at the pointing of a finger.
Sumner reflects on the suspicion surrounding associations formed for philanthropic purposes in a time of crime.
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