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The Ethical Culture Societies held a summer

school at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1892, to which they invited

several people representing the then new Settlement movement, that

they might discuss with others the general theme of Philanthropy and

Social Progress.

I venture to produce here parts of a lecture I delivered in Plymouth,

both because I have found it impossible to formulate with the same

freshness those early motives and strivings, and because, when pub'

lished with other papers given that summer, it was received by the Set'

dement people themselves as a satisfactory statement.

I remember one golden summer afternoon during the sessions of the

summer school that several of us met on the shores of a pond in a pine

wood a few miles from Plymouth, to discuss our new movement. The

natural leader of the group was Robert A. Woods. He had recently re^

turned from a residence in Toynbee Hall, London, to open Andover

House in Boston, and had just issued a book, "English Social Move