Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . to work out the problems of his own existence. ECONOMIC DISCUSSION i8i That first winter was within three years of theHenry George campaign in New York, when hisadherents all over the country were carrying on asuccessful and effective propaganda. When HenryGeorge himself came toHull-House one Sundayafternoon, the gymna-sium which was alreadycrowded with men tohear Father Huntingtonsaddress on Why shoulda free thinker believe inChrist, fairly rocked onits foundations under theenthusiastic and pro-longed applause whichgreeted this great l
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . to work out the problems of his own existence. ECONOMIC DISCUSSION i8i That first winter was within three years of theHenry George campaign in New York, when hisadherents all over the country were carrying on asuccessful and effective propaganda. When HenryGeorge himself came toHull-House one Sundayafternoon, the gymna-sium which was alreadycrowded with men tohear Father Huntingtonsaddress on Why shoulda free thinker believe inChrist, fairly rocked onits foundations under theenthusiastic and pro-longed applause whichgreeted this great leaderand constantly inter-rupted his stirring ad-dress, filled, as all of hisspeeches were, with highmoral enthusiasm andhumanitarian fervor. Ofthe remarkable congresses held in connection with the Worlds Fair, perhapsthose inaugurated by the advocates of single taxexceeded all others in vital enthusiasm. It waspossibly significant that all discussions in the de-partment of social science had to be organizedby partisans in separate groups. The very com-. />^ 182 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE mittee itself on social science composed of Chicagocitizens, of whom I was one, changed from weekto week, as partisan members had their feelingshurt because their causes did not receive due rec-ognition. And yet in the same building ad-herents of the most diverse religious creeds, easternand western, met in amity and good it perhaps indicate that their presentation ofthe eternal problems of life were cast in an olderand less sensitive mold than this presentation interms of social experience, or was it rather that thenew social science was not yet a science at all butmerely a name under cover of which we might dis-cuss the perplexing problems of the industrial situa-tion ^ Certainly the difficulties of our committeewere not minimized by the fact that the then newscience of sociology had not yet defined its own University of Chicago, opened only the year be-fore the W
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