Philantrophy

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In its root, love for humankind. In practice, various philanthropic associations began to emerge as early as the seventeenth century. These philanthropic societies developed in an effort to ameliorate specific cases of poverty, and later took on a progressive character of solidarity, sometimes international in nature. At the present time, many humanitarian organizations acknowledge p. as the primary personal attitude uniting their members.