{"id":579,"date":"2015-11-15T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/repeatright.com\/engine\/?p=579"},"modified":"2018-10-08T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:23:15","slug":"addams-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/addams-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"ADDAMS, Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1453315804311{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531588223-e020d87d-f7dd094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAction is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Jane Addams<\/strong>, American author, sociologist &amp; activist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>Democracy and Social Ethics <\/em>(March 1902) \u2018The Citizen\u2019s Library\u2019 series edition, ed. Richard Ely, New York: Macmillan Co., 1905, p. 273; online via University of Virginia &amp; Google Books, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:[Essay, derived from an Addams lecture series under the same title. Chapter VII\/Political Reform] \u201cPerhaps the last and greatest difficulty in the paths of those who are attempting to define and attain a social morality, is that which arises from the fact that they cannot adequately test the value of their efforts, cannot indeed be sure of their motives until their efforts are reduced to action and are presented in some workable form of social conduct or control. For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.\u201d (pp. 273-274)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Per Addams&#8217; \u201cPrefatory Note,\u201d the content of <em>Democracy and Social Ethics<\/em> presents \u201cthe substance\u201d of a course of twelve lectures under the same topic heading \u201cdelivered at various colleges and university extension centers\u201d. No specific lecture dates were noted in the text.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: <em>Democracy and Social Ethics<\/em> (1902|1905 Macmillan \u2018Citizen\u2019s Library\u2019 edition) online via Google Books: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=zY9G_i8ULMwC&amp;pg=PA273&amp;lpg=PA273&amp;dq=Perhaps+the+last+and+greatest+difficulty+in+the+paths+of+those+who+are+attempting+to+define+and+attain+a+social+morality\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=zY9G_i8ULMwC&amp;pg=PA273&amp;lpg=PA273&amp;dq=Perhaps+the+last+and+greatest+difficulty+in+the+paths+of+those+who+are+attempting+to+define+and+attain+a+social+morality<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbcd678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>C<\/strong>ivilization is an idea, a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Jane Addams<\/strong>, American author, sociologist &amp; activist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cCommercialism Disguised as Patriotism and Duty\u201d (11 February 1900) The Philadelphia Times, No. 8897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, p. 26, column 2; online via Newspapers.com [subscription service] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\">www.newspapers.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-ban&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Re-Quote&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531589281-1a7ccd5f-aa59094f-cf63d62a-d1d7&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><em>Re-quote notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span> [Addams, reflecting on her participation in the First Pan-Pacific Women\u2019s Conference, held in Honolulu Hawaii in 1928.]:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Congress at Honolulu proceeded, we felt that Oriental women had unique opportunities to stand free from the tyranny of mechanization and to act upon the assumptions that <span style=\"color: #003380\">civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.<\/span> The cultural outlook on life must become as aggressive as the commercial, if it hopes to be effective.\u201d (p. 303)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">[<em>Re-quote source<\/em>: Jane Addams, \u201cReflections on the First Pan-Pacific Women\u2019s Conference\u201d (c. 1930) <em>Aspects of the Woman\u2019s Movement<\/em>; cited in <em>Women of the Pacific: Proceedings of the First Pan-Pacific Women\u2019s Conference<\/em>, Honolulu, Hawaii: Pan-Pacific Union, 1930; reprint in <em>Jane Addams\u2019 Essays and Speeches on Peace<\/em>, eds. Marilyn Fischer and Judy D. Whipps, London: Continuum International Publishing Group, p. 303]<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315829475-7c82a017-1e62d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Newspaper editorial essay]:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot afford to let our minds drift at a time like this. If we ever mean to love mercy and do justly, now is the time to make the effort, when all our training and the current event pull us toward loving success and doing commercially. We even forget that c<span style=\"color: #003380\">ivilization is an idea, a method of living, an attitude of respect toward all men.<\/span> We actually come to believe in our confusion, that it is the opening of gold mines, the establishment of garrisons, the controlling of weaker men by brute force.\u201d (p. 26)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4cd678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source]<\/span>: \u201cCommercialism Disguised as Patriotism and Duty\u201d (11 February 1900) <em>The Philadelphia Times<\/em>; online via Newspapers.com [subscription service]: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/52570587\/?terms=%22we%2Beven%2Bforget%2Bthat%2Bcivilization%2Bis%2Ban%2Bidea%2C%2Ba%2Bmethod%2Bof%2Bliving%22\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/52570587\/?terms=%22we%2Beven%2Bforget%2Bthat%2Bcivilization%2Bis%2Ban%2Bidea%2C%2Ba%2Bmethod%2Bof%2Bliving%22<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source <\/em><\/strong>[Addams Re-quote]<\/span>: Library &#8211; <em>Writings on Peace: Jane Addams\u2019 Essays and Speeches<\/em> (2005 Continuum edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 1-8437-1044-7<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ed678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Jane Addams<\/strong>, American author, sociologist &amp; activist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes\u00a0<\/em>(1910) New York: Macmillan Co., July 1911, p. 66; online via Internet Archive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfd678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Addams, on recovering from \u201cspinal difficulty\u201d which had plagued her since childhood. Quote appears in chapter IV: \u2018The Snare of Preparation\u2019]\n<p>\u201cThe long illness left me in a state of nervous exhaustion with which I struggled for years, traces of it remaining long after Hull-House was opened in 1889. At the best it allowed me but a limited amount of energy, so that doubtless there was much nervous depression at the foundation of the spiritual struggles which this chapter is forced to record. However, it could not have been all due to my health, for as my wise little notebook sententiously remarked, \u201cIn his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.\u201d (p. 66)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: <em>Twenty Years at Hull-House <\/em>(1910|July 1911 Macmillan) online via Internet Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00addauoft#page\/66\/mode\/2up\/search\/in+his+own+way+each+man+must+struggle\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00addauoft#page\/66\/mode\/2up\/search\/in+his+own+way+each+man+must+struggle<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is not that simple people like to hear about little things; they want to hear about great things, simply told.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Jane Addams<\/strong>, American author, sociologist &amp; activist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cA Function of Social Settlement\u201d (May 1899) in\u00a0<em>Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/em>, Vol. XIII, No. 3; in volume <em>Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/em>, Vol. XIII (January 1899 \u2013 June 1899), ed. Roland P. Falkner, Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1899, pp. 337-338; online via University of Michigan &amp; Google Books, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-ban&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Misquotes&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531589281-1a7ccd5f-aa59094f-cf63d62a-d1d7&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><em>Misquote note<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Addams\u2019 quote was correctly repeated in a number of publications after it first appeared in 1899, but in more recent years it has been misquoted and paraphrased by a number of sources.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\">Misquote versions include<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #243569\">People did not want to hear about simple things. They wanted to hear about great things \u2013 simply told<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #243569\">People do not want to hear about simple things. They want to hear about great things \u2013 simply told<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #243569\">It is not that people like to hear about little things; they want to hear about great things, simply told<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some folks have also <span style=\"color: #800000\">misattributed<\/span> the misquote to Addams\u2019 <em>Twenty Years at Hull-House<\/em>. Neither the original quote nor the misquotes appear in the early editions of <em>Hull-House<\/em>, however, and to date we have not been able to find it in any of the later printings or special editions of the book.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Article in political &amp; social science journal.] \u201cA settlement might bring the same charge against university extension as against the public schools, that it is bookish and remote. Simple people want the large and vital \u2013 they are still in the tribal stage of knowledge, so to speak. It is not that simple people like to hear about little things; they want to hear about great things, simply told.\u201d (pp. 47-48 issue\/337-338 volume)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0<em>Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/em>, Vol. XIII (Jan. 1899-June 1899) via Google Books: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=uWA5AAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA338&amp;dq=Annals+of+the+American+Academy+of+Political+and+Social+Science+%2B+People+did+not+want+to+hear+about+simple+things\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=uWA5AAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA338&amp;dq=Annals+of+the+American+Academy+of+Political+and+Social+Science+%2B+People+did+not+want+to+hear+about+simple+things<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ed678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOld-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Jane Addams<\/strong>, American author, sociologist &amp; activist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cThe Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women\u201d (1906) Warren, OH: National American Woman Suffrage Association, p. 6; original page scan &amp; transcript via Jane Addams Digital Collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu\" target=\"_blank\">digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong><em>Note<\/em><\/strong><em>: <\/em>The quoted verse also appeared in Addams\u2019 book published the same year: <em>Newer Ideals in Peace<\/em> (1906) New York: Macmillan Co., January 1907 \u2018Citizen\u2019s Library\u2019 edition, p. 186; online via Internet Archive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfd678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Article title for National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) \u201cThe Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women.\u201d The work also appears in Addams\u2019 1906 book Newer Ideals for Peace as chapter VII: \u201cUtilization of Women in City Government.\u201d]\n<p>\u201cAre we going to lose ourselves in the old circle of convention, and add to that sum of wrong-doing which is continually committed in the world, because we do not look at things as they really are? Old-fashioned ways, which no longer apply to changed conditions, are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(p. 6 NAWSA \u2013 or p. 186, <em>New Ideas in Peace<\/em>)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link <\/em><\/strong>[NAWSA Article]<\/span>: \u201cThe Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women\u201d (1906) online via Jane Addams Digital Collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu\/items\/show\/2996\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu\/items\/show\/2996<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Book]<\/span>: <em>Newer Ideals for Peace<\/em> (1906|1907 Macmillan edition) online via Internet Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/neweridealsofpea00addauoft#page\/186\/mode\/2up\/search\/old-fashioned+ways\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/neweridealsofpea00addauoft#page\/186\/mode\/2up\/search\/old-fashioned+ways<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>S<\/strong>ocial advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Jane Addams<\/strong>, American author, sociologist &amp; activist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes\u00a0<\/em>(1910) New York: Macmillan Co., July 1911, p. 357; online via Internet Archive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Chapter XV: \u2018The Value of Social Clubs\u2019]\n<p>\u201cWe are slowly learning that social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty, and of this one could cite many illustrations.\u201d (p. 357)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: <em>Twenty Years at Hull-House <\/em>(1910|July 1911) online via Internet Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00inadda#page\/356\/mode\/2up\/search\/social+advance+depends+quite+as+much+upon\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00inadda#page\/356\/mode\/2up\/search\/social+advance+depends+quite+as+much+upon<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ed678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>T<\/strong>he good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain\u2026until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Jane Addams<\/strong>, American author, sociologist &amp; activist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cThe Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements\u201d (1892) Essay delivered before the School of Applied Ethics, Plymouth, Massachusetts, \u2018during the session of 1892\u2019;\u00a0 in <em>Philanthropy and Social Progress<\/em>, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell &amp; Co., 1893, p. 7; online via Internet Archive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-ban&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Misquotes&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531589281-1a7ccd5f-aa59094f-cf63d62a-d1d7&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><em>Misquote note<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Some sources have used the abbreviated Addams quote without indicating that some of the text is missing:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Original sentence<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cThese young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that if in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"><em>Misquote<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: \u201c<span style=\"color: #800000\">The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><span style=\"color: #243569\"><em>Repeat right<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Use a bracket &amp; ellipsis to indicate that you are abbreviating Addams&#8217; original sentence:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #243569\">[T]he good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain\u2026until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfd678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong><em>:<\/em> [Essay delivered before the School of Applied Ethics in Plymouth, MA. One of two Addams essays that appear in the\u00a0<em>Philanthropy and Social Progress\u00a0<\/em>lecture collection.]\n<p>\u201cThese young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that if in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.\u201d (p. 7)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Addams also included \u201cThe Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements\u201d as a chapter in her 1910 book <em>Twenty Years at Hull-House<\/em>. (Macmillan Co., 1911 ed., p. 116) Please see the \u2018Source Link\u2019 tab if you wish to view the quote as it appears in this book.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0d678-591b&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Earliest print source]<\/span>: <em>Philanthropy and Social Progress<\/em> (1893) online via Internet Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/philanthropyand00addagoog#page\/n25\/mode\/2up\/search\/the+good+we+secure+for+ourselves+is+precarious\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/philanthropyand00addagoog#page\/n25\/mode\/2up\/search\/the+good+we+secure+for+ourselves+is+precarious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b04b04\"><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Addams reprint<\/span>]<\/span>: <em>Twenty Years at Hull-House <\/em>(1910|July 1911) online via Internet Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00inadda#page\/116\/mode\/2up\/search\/the+good+we+secure+for+ourselves+is+precarious+and+uncertain\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00inadda#page\/116\/mode\/2up\/search\/the+good+we+secure+for+ourselves+is+precarious+and+uncertain<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<h4 class=\"section-title\">Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; el_class=&#8221;Wrapper-Author-Resources&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #b04b04\"><strong>Learn more about Jane Addams<\/strong><\/span> | Here are a few good places to start:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jane Addams\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<strong>Nobel Media <\/strong>\u2013 Official Nobel Prize webpages related to Addams\u2019 1931 Nobel Peace Prize award. Resources include a brief facts page, biography &amp; photos. [Addams did not deliver a traditional Nobel lecture.]: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/peace\/laureates\/1931\/addams-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/peace\/laureates\/1931\/addams-bio.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jane Addams Digital Edition<\/strong> \u2013 Searchable collection of Addams\u2019 correspondence and writings from 1901-1935. As of March 2018, the digital collection is still under construction \u2013 please see the next link for more details on the Jane Addams Papers Project: <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Jane Addams Papers Project <\/strong>| <strong>Ramapo College<\/strong> &#8211; Founded in 1975 &amp; re-launched in 2015, the Papers Project aims to digitize Addams documents and make them freely available &amp; searchable online. Current pages include an \u2018About Jane Addams\u2019 profile, bibliography, life chronology, list of Hull House residents, and collection of searchable documents: <a href=\"http:\/\/janeaddams.ramapo.edu\/about-jane-addams\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/janeaddams.ramapo.edu\/about-jane-addams\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes<\/em><\/strong> (1910) Jane Addams; full text available online via Internet Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00addauoft#page\/n9\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/twentyyearsathul00addauoft#page\/n9\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Jane Addams As I Knew Her<\/em><\/strong> (1936) <strong>Marcet Haldeman-Julius <\/strong>\u2013 Biography and memoir by Addams\u2019 niece, who remained close to Addams throughout her lifetime. Full text online via HathiTrust: <a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.31822043021575;view=1up;seq=19\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.31822043021575;view=1up;seq=19<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Jane Addams Hull House Museum<\/strong> | Chicago, IL \u2013 Resources include \u2018About\u2019 pages with an Addams profile and brief Hull-House history, plus current exhibit &amp; program information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hullhousemuseum.org\/about-jane-addams\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hullhousemuseum.org\/about-jane-addams\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Jane Addams (1860-1935)<\/strong>\u2019| <strong>Harvard University<\/strong>\u2019| \u201cWomen Working, 1800-1930\u201d \u2013 Brief biography &amp; links to additional resources: <a href=\"http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/ww\/addams.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ocp.hul.harvard.edu\/ww\/addams.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963<\/strong>\u2019|<strong>University of Illinois at Chicago<\/strong> \u2013 Online exhibit includes historical essays, maps, timeline, and teacher resource pages:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hullhouse.uic.edu\/hull\/urbanexp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hullhouse.uic.edu\/hull\/urbanexp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>As Chicago\u2019s Hull House Closes Its Doors, Time to Revive the Settlement Model?<\/strong>\u2019 (25 January 2012) <strong>The Nation<\/strong> article by Louise W. Knight reports on the Hull House closing and historical impact of settlement houses: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/chicagos-hull-house-closes-its-doors-time-revive-settlement-model\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/chicagos-hull-house-closes-its-doors-time-revive-settlement-model\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong><em>Image credit<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0ADDAMS, Jane (c.1914) Photographer: Gerhard Sisters, \u201cPortrait photograph of Jane Addams seated at desk, holding pen,\u201d Reproduction No. LC-USZ62-13484, No known copyright restrictions, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2013651558\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2013651558\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Addams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[140,19,63,127,167,491,98,488,116],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american","category-authors","category-civil-and-human-rights-advocates","category-commentators-columnists-social-critics-and-pundits","category-educators-and-childrens-advocates","category-born-in-illinois","category-nobel-prize-recipients","category-nonprofit","category-sociologists-social-scientists","tag-american"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Addams-Jane2.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YPRD-9l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}