Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”

( 1892 ) Commentary by Luca Prono Ph.D.

“This paper is an attempt to analyze the motives which underlie a movement based, not only upon conviction, but upon genuine emotion, wherever educated young people are seeking an outlet for that sentiment for universal brotherhood, which the best spirit of our times is forcing from an emotion into a motive.” - “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”
“The Settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of a city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other; but it assumes that this overaccumulation and destitution is most sorely felt in the things that pertain to social and educational privileges.” - “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”

Jane Addams (Library of Congress)

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