in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an … - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

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