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Criterion of period; solution of social problems. The climax of guild social influence. Insurance features. No poorhouses, no orphan asylums. Care of ne'er-do-well. Guild of Holy Cross, Stratford; almshouses; grammar school. Thirty thousand guilds in England. Philanthropy. Sir Hugh Clopton's guild chapel and bridge. "Tag day." Beguines' care for dependents: their place in history. Lending institutions for the poor. St. Catherine of Genoa. Organization of charity. St. Philip Neri; modern appreciation. St. Ignatius. Savonarola. Political complications. Savonarola's fate. Las Casas' care for the Indians. St. Francis Borgia. Torture later in history. Witchcraft delusion post-reformation. Decadence of charity

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