It Is Easy To Become

It Is As Easy For Most Of Us To Keep From Stealing Our Dinners As It Is To Digest Them, And There Is Quite As Much Voluntary Morality Involved In One Process As The Other.

When The Sense Of Justice Seeks To Express Itself Quite Outside The Regular Channels Of Established Government, It Has Set Forth On A Dangerous Journey Inevitably Ending In Disaster.

A Very Little Familiarity With The Poor Districts Of Any City Is Sufficient To Show How Primitive And Genuine Are The Neighborly Relations.

Private Beneficence Is Totally Inadequate To Deal With The Vast Numbers Of The City's Disinherited.

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.