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Having admired and respected Dr. Symonds for many years, I looked forward to reading and discussing this latest product of his considered thinking. His deeply felt compassion for the downtrodden, the lonely, the uncared for, the used ones of our society has been apparent to many of us in his comments in seminars and discussion groups. His paper reveals in its spirit, its comprehensiveness, and its sensitiveness, how acutely attuned he is to the language and nuances of those mired in the hopelessness of poverty. “I become despondent as Hell and feel like crying. I'm not a man, none of us are men. I don't own anything.” Dr. Symonds voices his scientific as well as human caring much as Edwin Markham did poetically in “The Man With The Hoe”1:
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, How will the Future reckon with this
[Man?
How answer his brute question in that
[hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the
[world?
How will it be with kingdom and with
[kings—
With those who shaped him to the thing