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race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot

boy. Its residents must he emptied of all conceit of opinion and all

self-assertion, and ready to arouse and interpret the public opinion of their neighborhood. They must be content to live quietly

side by side with their neighbors, until they grow into a sense of

relationship and mutual interests. Their neighbors are held apart

by differences of race and language which the residents can more

easily overcome. They are bound to see the needs of their neighborhood as a whole, to furnish data for legislation, and to use

their influence to secure it. In short, residents are pledged to devote themselves to the duties of good citizenship and to the arousing of the social energies which too largely lie dormant in every

neighborhood given over to industrialism. They are bound to regard the entire life of their city as organic, to make an effort to

unify it, and to protest against its overdifferentiation.

It is always easy to make all philosophy point one particular

moral and all history adorn one particular tale; but I may be forgiven the reminder that the best speculative philosophy sets forth

the solidarity of the human race; that the highest moralists have

taught that without the advance and improvement of the whole,

no man can hope for any lasting improvement in his own moral

or material individual condition; and that the subjective necessity for Social Settlements is therefore identical with that necessity, which urges us on toward social and individual salvation.