{"product_id":"2940013033160","title":"A NEW CONSCIENCE AND AN ANCIENT EVIL","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I   As inferred from An Analogy\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II  As indicated by Recent Legal Enactments\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III As indicated by the Amelioration of Economic Conditions\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV  As indicated by the Moral Education and Legal Protection\u003cbr\u003e            of Children\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V   As indicated by Philanthropic Rescue and Prevention\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI  As indicated by Increased Social Control\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN ANALOGY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn every large city throughout the world thousands of women are so set\u003cbr\u003easide as outcasts from decent society that it is considered an\u003cbr\u003eimpropriety to speak the very word which designates them. Lecky calls\u003cbr\u003ethis type of woman \"the most mournful and the most awful figure in\u003cbr\u003ehistory\": he says that \"she remains, while creeds and civilizations rise\u003cbr\u003eand fall, the eternal sacrifice of humanity, blasted for the sins of the\u003cbr\u003epeople.\" But evils so old that they are imbedded in man's earliest\u003cbr\u003ehistory have been known to sway before an enlightened public opinion and\u003cbr\u003ein the end to give way to a growing conscience, which regards them first\u003cbr\u003eas a moral affront and at length as an utter impossibility. Thus the\u003cbr\u003egeneration just before us, our own fathers, uprooted the enormous upas\u003cbr\u003eof slavery, \"the tree that was literally as old as the race of man,\"\u003cbr\u003ealthough slavery doubtless had its beginnings in the captives of man's\u003cbr\u003eearliest warfare, even as this existing evil thus originated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose of us who think we discern the beginnings of a new conscience in\u003cbr\u003eregard to this twin of slavery, as old and outrageous as slavery itself\u003cbr\u003eand even more persistent, find a possible analogy between certain civic,\u003cbr\u003ephilanthropic and educational efforts directed against the very\u003cbr\u003eexistence of this social evil and similar organized efforts which\u003cbr\u003epreceded the overthrow of slavery in America. Thus, long before slavery\u003cbr\u003ewas finally declared illegal, there were international regulations of\u003cbr\u003eits traffic, state and federal legislation concerning its extension, and\u003cbr\u003emany extra legal attempts to control its abuses; quite as we have the\u003cbr\u003einternational regulations concerning the white slave traffic, the state\u003cbr\u003eand interstate legislation for its repression, and an extra legal power\u003cbr\u003ein connection with it so universally given to the municipal police that\u003cbr\u003ethe possession of this power has become one of the great sources of\u003cbr\u003ecorruption in every American city.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152501063920,"sku":"2940013033160","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013033160_p0.jpg?v=1763575897","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013033160","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}