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all of spiritual science ultimately aims to understand human beings in their essence

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Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collection

The Fundamental Institution W all of spiritual science ultimatelyBy the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for the indigent, poor farms in fact attracted wards that ranged from abused wives and the elderly to orphans,