The Legacy of Jane Addams - CCNR

Jane Addams:Affectionate InterpretationOur thoughts, at least for this generation, cannot be too much directedfrom mutual relationships and responsibilities. They will be warped, unlesswe look all men in the face, as if a community of interests lay between,unless we hold the mind open, to take strength and cheer from a hundredconnections.To touch to vibrating response the noble fibre in each man, to pull thesemany fibres, fragile, impalpable and constantly breaking, as they are, intoone impulse, to develop that mere impulse through its feeble and tentativestages into action, is no easy task, but lateral progress is impossible withoutit.Addams, Jane. (November 2, 1912). A modern Lear, Survey, 29, 131-137.http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/addamsjane/a/mod_lear_10003b_3.htm