Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries. HUMANITY IN THE CITY. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible; please see list of printing issues at the end of the text. * * * * * [Illustration: E. H. Chapin] HUMANITY IN THE CITY. BY THE REV. E. H. CHAPIN. NEW YORK: DE WITT & DAVENPORT, PUBLISHERS, 160 & 162 NASSAU STREET. BOSTON: ABEL TOMPKINS, 38 & 40 CORNHILL. * * * * * Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by DE WITT & DAVENPORT, In the Clerk's Office of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York G. W. ALEXANDER, BINDER, 9 Spruce Street. W. H. TINSON. STEREOTYPER, 24 Beekman Street. TAWS, RUSSELL & CO. PRINTERS, No. 26 Beekman Street. * * * * * CONTENTS. PAGE I. THE LESSONS OF THE STREET 13 II. MAN AND MACHINERY 39 III. THE STRIFE FOR PRECEDENCE 65 IV. THE SYMBOLS OF THE REPUBLIC 93 V. THE SPRINGS OF SOCIAL LIFE 123 VI. THE ALLIES OF THE TEMPTER 157 VII. THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR 187 VIII. THE HELP OF RELIGION 223 * * * * * PREFACE.