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

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."

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.