ABSTRACT
I HAVE brought along a book which may interest you since it comes under the head of history, Mrs. Smyth said in greeting me, as I opened the door again to my fellow-searchers. It is Albert Deutsch's The Mentally Ill in America: A History of Their Care and Treatment. I also have another book by Deutsch, written in co-operation with David M. Schneider, called The History of Public Welfare in New York State. If you would like to look at it too, I should be happy to lend it to you. I thought that these histories might fit into our discussion of the general welfare tonight. Robert ridiculed the idea and said that the hard-boiled men who wrote the Constitution were not thinking of welfare in any such sense.
