[The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Business of Being a Woman CHAPTER IV 18/23
This good will is only another name for neighborliness--the spirit of friendly recognition of all those who come within one's radius.
Neighborliness is based upon the Christian and democratic proposition that all men are brothers--a proposition with which the sects and parties of Christianity and democracy often play havoc.
In their zeal for an interpretation or system they sacrifice the very things they were devised to perpetuate and extend among men.
A sectarian or partisan household cannot be a genuinely neighborly household.
It has cut off too large a part of its source of supply. The most perfect type of this spirit of neighborliness which we have worked out in this country, outside of the thousands of little homes where it exists and of which, in the nature of the case, only those who have felt their influence can know, is undoubtedly Hull House, the Chicago Settlement under the direction of Jane Addams.
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