[Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams]@TWC D-Link bookDemocracy and Social Ethics CHAPTER VI 33/33
His education, however simple, should tend to make him widely at home in the world, and to give him a sense of simplicity and peace in the midst of the triviality and noise to which he is constantly subjected.
He, like other men, can learn to be content to see but a part, although it must be a part of something. It is because of a lack of democracy that we do not really incorporate him in the hopes and advantages of society, and give him the place which is his by simple right.
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class; but we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all men and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
In spite of many attempts we do not really act upon either statement..
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