It Is Easy To Become The Dupe

A Long-established Occupation May Form The Very Foundations Of The Moral Life, That The Art With Which A Man Has Solaced His Toil May Be The Salvation Of His Uncertain Temperament.

When The Entire Moral Energy Of An Individual Goes Into The Cultivation Of Personal Integrity, We All Know How Unlovely The Result May Become; The Character Is Upright, Of Course, But Too Coated Over With The Result Of Its Own Endeavor To Be Attractive.

Nothing Could Be Worse Than The Fear That One Had Given Up Too Soon, And Left One Unexpended Effort That Might Have Saved The World.

That Which May Have Sounded Like Righteous Teaching When It Was Remote And Wordy, Will Be Challenged Afresh When It Is Obliged To Simulate Life Itself.

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.