Perhaps Nothing Is So Fraught With Significance

No One So Poignantly Realizes The Failures In The Social Structure As The Man At The Bottom, Who Has Been Most Directly In Contact With Those Failures And Has Suffered Most.

The Identification With The Common Lot Which Is The Essential Idea Of Democracy Becomes The Source And Expression Of Social Ethics. It Is As Though We Thirsted To Drink At The Great Wells Of Human Experience, Because We Knew That A Daintier Or Less Potent Draught Would Not Carry Us To The End Of The Journey, Going Forward As We Must In The Heat And Jostle Of The Crowd.

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 Have Come To Believe ... That The Stage May Do More Than Teach, That Much Of Our Current Moral Instruction Will Not Endure The Test Of Being Cast Into A Lifelike Mold, And When Presented In Dramatic Form Will Reveal Itself As Platitudinous And Effete. That Which May Have Sounded Like Righteous Teaching When It Was Remote And Wordy, Will Be Challenged Afresh When It Is Obliged To Simulate Life Itself.

Intellectual Life Requires For Its Expansion And Manifestation The Influences And Assimilation Of The Interests And Affections Of Others.