Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.