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The Settlement ... Is An Experimental Effort To Aid In The Solution Of The Social And Industrial Problems Which Are Engendered By The Modern Conditions Of Life In A Great City. It Insists That These Problems Are Not Confined To Any One Portion Of The City. It Is An Attempt To Relieve, At The Same Time, The Overaccumulation At One End Of Society And The Destitution At The Other.

What After All, Has Maintained The Human Race On This Old Globe Despite All The Calamities Of Nature And All The Tragic Failings Of Mankind, If Not Faith In New Possibilities, And Courage To Advocate Them. Doubtless Many Times These New Possibilities Were Declared By A Man Who, Quite Unconscious Of Courage, Bore The "sense Of Being An Exile, A Condemned Criminal, A Fugitive From Mankind." Did Every One So Feel Who, In Order To Travel On His Own Proper Path Had Been Obliged To Leave The Traditional Highway?

Old-fashioned Ways Which No Longer Apply To Changed Conditions Are A Snare In Which The Feet Of Women Have Always Become Readily Entangled.

An Unscrupulous Contractor Regards No Basement As Too Dark, No Stable Loft Too Foul, No Rear Shanty Too Provisional, No Tenement Room Too Small For His Workroom As These Conditions Imply Low Rental.

Private Beneficence Is Totally Inadequate To Deal With The Vast Numbers Of The City's Disinherited.