Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . emany difficulties of its neighbors as its experiencesmake vivid the consciousness of modern inter-nationalism. And yet the very fact that thesense of reality is so keen and the obligation ofthe Settlement so obvious, may perhaps in itselfexplain the opposition Hull-House has encounteredwhen it expressed its sympathy with the Russianrevolution. We were much entertained, althoughsomewhat ruefully, when a Chicago woman with-drew from us a large annual subscription becauseHull-House had defended a Russian refugee whileshe, who had seen muc
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . emany difficulties of its neighbors as its experiencesmake vivid the consciousness of modern inter-nationalism. And yet the very fact that thesense of reality is so keen and the obligation ofthe Settlement so obvious, may perhaps in itselfexplain the opposition Hull-House has encounteredwhen it expressed its sympathy with the Russianrevolution. We were much entertained, althoughsomewhat ruefully, when a Chicago woman with-drew from us a large annual subscription becauseHull-House had defended a Russian refugee whileshe, who had seen much of the Russian aristoc-racy in Europe, knew from them that all the revo-lutionary agitation was both unreasonable andunnecessary ! 426 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE It is, of course, Impossible to say whether theseoppositions were inevitable or whether they wereindications that Hull-House had somehow bungledat its task. Many times I have been driven tothe confession of the blundering Amiel: It re-quires ability to make what we seem agree withwhat we
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