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

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

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.

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.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!