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But I should prefer to add: that the success
of a great & hazardous experiment at
Liverpool was due mainly to self-devotion,
to forbearance, to sinking personality in work
- to the good wishes of the Committee - to the
action of good men & true privately -
Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Cropper, & the like - xx
& not to any law or Regulation -
that there was in fact no ground on which
to rest either
& that this example shows clearly that not
much can be expected if a cut & dry
plan is laid before Boards of Guardians
to make or to mar - can it? -
"make slow haste".
Better to get it done & a tradition
introduced at one place at a time.
is it not?
xx There are equally good men at Highgate (Central London
Sick Asylum Board) - Mr. Wyatt, a prince of men:
Sir Sydney Waterlow etc. etc. -
but will these men "come when you do call for them", if you
don't give them power?