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Notes of a Native Son

The great, gleaming apparatus which fed him and would have compelled him to be still even if he had been able to move brought to mind, not beneficence, but torture; the tubes entering his arm made me think of pictures I had seen when a child, of Gulliver, tied down by the pygmies on that island.†
Subsection 2

Definition:

doing or producing good -- especially generous in assistance to the poor