Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . fluence to secure it. In short, resi-dents are pledged to devote themselves to the duties ofgood citizenship and to the arousing of the social energies SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS 127 which too largely lie dormant in every neighborhoodgiven over to industrialism. They are bound to regardthe entire life of their city as organic, to make an effortto unify it, and to protest against its over-differen-tiation. It is always easy to make all philosophy point oneparticular moral and all history adorn one particulartale; but I may be forgiven the remind
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . fluence to secure it. In short, resi-dents are pledged to devote themselves to the duties ofgood citizenship and to the arousing of the social energies SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS 127 which too largely lie dormant in every neighborhoodgiven over to industrialism. They are bound to regardthe entire life of their city as organic, to make an effortto unify it, and to protest against its over-differen-tiation. It is always easy to make all philosophy point oneparticular moral and all history adorn one particulartale; but I may be forgiven the reminder that the bestspeculative philosophy sets forth the solidarity of thehuman race; that the highest moralists have taughtthat without the advance and improvement of the whole,no man can hope for any lasting improvement in hisown moral or material individual condition; and thatthe subjective necessity for Social Settlements is there-fore identical with that necessity, which urges us ontoward social and individual salvation. 128 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE. CHAPTER VIISome Early Undertakings at Hull-House If the early American Settlements stood for amore exigent standard in philanthropic activities,insisting that each new undertaking should bepreceded by carefully ascertained facts, then cer-tainly Hull-House held to this standard in theopening of our new coffee-house first started as apublic kitchen. An investigation of the sweatshopshad disclosed the fact, that sewing women duringthe busy season paid little attention to the feedingof their families, for it was only by working steadilythrough the long day that the scanty pay of five,seven, or nine cents for finishing a dozen pairs oftrousers could be made into a days wage ; and theybought from the nearest grocery the canned goodsthat could be most quickly heated, or gave a fewpennies to the children with which they mightsecure a lunch from a neighboring candy shop. One of the residents made an investigation, atthe instance of the
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