A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

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.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

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.

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

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.