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conTenTs Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Big Moll and the Science of Scientific Charity 1 2 “Armies of Vice”: Evolution, Heredity, and the Pauper Menace 35 3 Friendly Visitors or Scientific Investigators? Befriending and Measuring the Poor 70 4 Opposition, Depression, and the Rejection of Pauperism 105 5 “I See No Terrible Army”: Environmental Reform and Radicalism in the Scientific Charity Movement 143 6 The Potentially Normal Poor: Professional Social Work, Psychology, and the End of Scientific Charity 179 Epilogue 204 Appendix 1. Course Syllabus, Alexander Johnson: Study Class in Social Science in the Department of Charity 211 Appendix 2. Course Syllabus, Mrs. S. E. Tenney: The Class for Study of the Friendly Visitor’s Work 215 Notes 217 Selected Bibliography 245 Index 259 This page intentionally left blank ...