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Excerpt from Long View: Papers and AddressesT will always be a marvel, to those who know her story inti mately, that Mary E. Richmond ever found and entered upon the path that led her into the field of social work.She was born in Belleville, Illinois, on August 5, 1861. Her parents, who came from Baltimore, soon returned to that city, however, and her childhood was passed there during the period of turmoil and readjustment following the Civil War. Her father and mother both died young, of tuberculosis, leaving the little Mary to be brought up by relatives who were far from well-off. Although there was a dearth of this world's goods, there was no lack of ideas in her environment, the grandmother and aunt who took the most responsibility for her upbringing were both much given to espousing new beliefs and causes. She heard animated discussion of woman's suffrage, racial problems, spiritualism, anti vivisection, and similar radical movements, as they were then esteemed, acquiring thus very early a bias in favor of liberal and individual views, and a tendency to scrutinize ideas all the more closely if they seemed to be commonly accepted. In later years, she once said, The radicals think I'm a conservative and the con servatives think I'm a radical, and they're both surprised that I somehow manage to keep in the procession. The incisiveness of intellect and the sense of humor which were always characteristic of her must have saved her from the danger of becoming a fanatic, and She has related how as a ten-year - old she was perfectly aware of the hocus-pocus being practiced on her elders by some of the leaders who frequented their home, and marveled that they could be so easily duped.She learned to read at an early age - out of Pickwick Papers. She has told us that when the news of Dickens' death in 1870 reached America she wept for hours and would not be comforted!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.