Naturally — and without, as it seems to me, very much self-sacrifice — he chooses release from lovedom.

Turning large fortunes into public assets for the good of mankind was a huge project. But what gave philanthropy even more of a central place in modern American life was the simultaneous creation of a people's philanthropy—or mass philanthropy—that engaged the large American middle and working classes in their own welfare. Philanthropy would not be a democratic value if it remained the domain of the wealthy. Only when the rest of the population aligned its old welfare institutions and charitable habits to the systematic search for the common good would philanthropy become a national commitment.

ONE evening at six o’clock, in the villages of Chiating county near Shanghai, the loudspeakers announced, All communes and brigades take notice: Tonight there will be a heavy rain ... This was the regular county forecast.]

1996: some groups of spiders have a sieve-like plate, the cribellum, just in front of the spinners. — Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 17)