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The Lesson of Philadelphia
November 26, 1885 issue

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During the past week the people of Philadelphia have been told more plain truth about the condition of that city than they ever heard before in the whole course of their lives. Outsiders have long recognized the fact that Philadelphia is the most provincial and the least progressive of all the large cities, but it was a bold visitor who ever ventured to disturb the serene assurance of the true Philadelphian that his town was still as far ahead of any other as in the days of its colonial preeminence more than a century ago. So the city has gone on year after year hugging the comforting delusion, while the rest of the country has smiled at its self-deception and wondered how the spell would ever be broken.

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SELF-deception; CITIES & towns; HUMAN settlements; VISITORS, Foreign; PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
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