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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯:节俭·摘录 255
塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《节俭》· Thrift · 投资
We believe that time and experience will enable the leaders of Friendly Societies generally to improve them, and introduce new ameliorations. The best institutions are things of slow growth, and are shaped by experience, which includes failures as well as successes; and finally, they require age to strengthen them and root them in habit. The rudest society established by working men for mutual help in sickness, independent of help from private charity or the poor-rates, is grounded on a right spirit, and is deserving of every encouragement. It furnishes a foundation on which to build up something better. It teaches self-reliance, and thus cultivates amongst the humblest classes habits of provident economy.
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我们相信,时间和经验将使友谊会的领导者们改进它们并引入新的改善。最好的制度是缓慢成长的,由经验塑造,包括失败和成功;最终需要时间来巩固并扎根于习惯。工人们建立的最粗糙的互助会社,独立于私人慈善或济贫法,基于正确精神,值得鼓励。它提供了建立更好制度的基础,教导自力更生,从而在最卑微的阶层中培养节俭习惯。
上下文
斯迈尔斯《节俭》中评价友谊会,19世纪英国工人自助组织。
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你所在的社区有哪些基于互助精神的小型组织值得支持?
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