Our Philadelphia . s set to his boys. His method, denounce it as youwill, has its merits. The students of Dotheboys Hallcould never have forgotten what a window is or what itmeans to clean it. I had grown up to accept life as apageant for me to look on at, with no part to play in my initiation into work, I could never forget, in thequietest, emptiest sections of the town, not even in placidlittle backwaters like Clinton Street and De LanceyPlace, the machinery forever crashing and grinding androaring to produce the pageant, to weave for Philadelphiathe beautiful serenity it wore like
Our Philadelphia . s set to his boys. His method, denounce it as youwill, has its merits. The students of Dotheboys Hallcould never have forgotten what a window is or what itmeans to clean it. I had grown up to accept life as apageant for me to look on at, with no part to play in my initiation into work, I could never forget, in thequietest, emptiest sections of the town, not even in placidlittle backwaters like Clinton Street and De LanceyPlace, the machinery forever crashing and grinding androaring to produce the pageant, to weave for Philadelphiathe beautiful serenity it wore like a garment. I couldnever forget that, insignificant as my share in the ma-chinery might be, all the same I was contributing some-thing to make it go. I could never be sure that everybodyI met, however calm in appearance, might not be as mixedup in the great machine of work as I was beginning to be. I had to work to learn that Philadelphia had worked,and still worked, and worked so well as to be the first to ^^-^^^^-. CLINTON STREET, WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL AT ITS END THE MIRACLE OF WORK 267 have given America much that is best and most vital in thecountry—the first to show the right way with its schoolsand hospitals and libraries and newspapers and galleriesand museums, the leader in the fight for liberty of con-science, the scene of the first Colonial Congress and thesigning of the Declaration of Independence and the Cen-tennial Exposition to commemorate it, a pioneer in scienceand industry and manufacture—a town upon which all theothers in the land could not do better than model them-selves—while all the time it maintained its fine air of calmthat perplexes the stranger and misleads the native. ButI had found it out, found out its greatness, before age haddimmed my perceptions and dulled my power of apprecia-tion; and to find Philadelphia out is to love it. CHAPTER XI: THE ROMANCE OF WORK I I WAS still in the stage of wonder and joy at seeingmyself in print, when
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