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Prefatory Note
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. Charitable Effort
Chapter III. Filial Relations
Chapter IV. Household Adjustment
Chapter V. Industrial Amelioration
Chapter VI. Educational Methods
Chapter VII. Political Reform
Index1
Democracy and Social Ethics
by Jane Addams
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There are many indications that this conception of Democracy is growing among us. We have come to have an enormous interest in human life as such, accompanied by confidence in its essential soundness. We do not believe that genuine experience can lead us astray any more than scientific data can.
We realize, too, that social perspective and sanity of judgment come only from contact with social experience; that such contact is the surest corrective of opinions concerning the social order, and concerning efforts, however humble, for its improvement. Indeed, it is a consciousness of the illuminating and dynamic value of this wider and more thorough human experience which explains in no small degree that new curiosity regarding human life which has more of a moral basis than an intellectual one.
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