...not always follow. He used the Ohio River flood to draw a moral lesson. It is said, he wrote, that half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but this time "misery was driven from her house and the world saw itself as it is." He concluded on...

...the "new poor." Dr. John Griscom, commenting on the wretchedness of slum life in the 1840's, said, "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." 1 Griscom's language and viewpoint were echoed almost a half century later by Jacob Riis, and now,...

...Individuum und Freiheit empfinden, ist nur ein Beispiel für Emersons traurigen und pessimistischen Satz: "One half of the world does not know how the other half lives." S. 331, Anm. 7. Max Weber, Politische Schriften, S. 450: „Alle geschichtliche Erfahrung bestätigt...

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...areas. Samuel Smiles, editor of the radical Leeds Times, certainly read the 1839 report in this way, One half of the world does not know how the other half exists . . . many in this town will scarcely credit our statement that many of their fellow creatures...

...himself "disgusted at such depravity": "How ugly is life devoid of ideals! It is just as well that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" (159). In Greece he felt he had finally found his home: "I was awakened to the insistent impression...

...mind foreign, but infinitely interesting just because of their strangeness. It is no longer true that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives; travel films make that impossible. An ordinary person going to the cinema casually during the last...

...(Norris) or 2000 (Constantine), the story is still that of Jacob Riis in 1890: "Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care."24 Norris 's short story, "A Deal in What,"...

...Sanitation in the United States, 1901 CHAPTER 1 8 JACOB A. RIIS (1849-1914) Long ago ... it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' ... It did not know because it did not care . . . until some flagrant outrage on decency and the health...