The Mass Of Men Seldom Move Together

Unless Our Conception Of Patriotism Is Progressive, It Cannot Hope To Embody The Real Affection And The Real Interest Of The Nation.

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.

All Those Hints And Glimpses Of A Larger And More Satisfying Democracy, Which Literature And Our Own Hopes Supply, Have A Tendency To Slip Away From Us And To Leave Us Sadly Unguided And Perplexed When We Attempt To Act Upon Them.

It Is Easy To Become The Dupe Of A Deferred Purpose, Of The Promise The Future Can Never Keep, And I Had Fallen Into The Meanest Type Of Self-deception In Making Myself Believe That All This Was In Preparation For Great Things To Come.

We Are Learning That A Standard Of Social Ethics Is Not Attained By Travelling A Sequestered Byway, But By Mixing On The Thronged And Common Road Where All Must Turn Out For One Another, And At Least See The Size Of One Another's Burdens.