It Is Easy To Become The Dupe

It Is Dreadful The Way All The Comfortable, Happy People Stay Off To Themselves.

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.

I Might Believe I Had Unusual Talent If I Did Not Know What Good Music Was; I Might Enjoy Half An Hour's Practice A Day If I Were Busy And Happy The Rest Of The Time. You Do Not Know What Life Means When All The Difficulties Are Removed! I Am Simply Smothered And Sickened With Advantages. It Is Like Eating A Sweet Dessert The First Thing In The Morning.

My Temperament And Habit Had Always Kept Me Rather In The Middle Of The Road; In Politics As Well As In Social Reform I Had Been For "the Best Possible." But Now I Was Pushed Far Toward The Left On The Subject Of The War And I Became Gradually Convinced That In Order To Make The Position Of The Pacifist Clear It Was Perhaps Necessary That At Least A Small Number Of Us Should Be Forced Into An Unequivocal Position.

But The Paradox Is Here: When Cultivated People Do Stay Away From A Certain Portion Of The Population, When All Social Advantages Are Persistently Withheld, It May Be For Years, The Result Itself Is Pointed To As A Reason And Is Used As An Argument For The Continued Withholding.