A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

Jane Addams

Capitolo 58

life contains anything but the cold feelings. He contends that young
people are therefore prone to receive moralizing and the admonitions with
kind attention, but when it comes to action, they attentively observes
the life around them for condurrsi in so wise as to be
part of the really desirable world lived by men of business. Owing to
this attitude, a lot of youths people that live in our cities to the present
moment has failed to learn the admonitions of religion and possession
he/she never answered to his/her inside control. It is as if the impact of the
world had deafened their spiritual natures, and as if this was happened
to the a lot of duration that a more dangerous experiment is tried. The
public cheerfulness previously allowed in Catholic countries where young
people were contained from the confessional ones, now it is permitted in the city
where unknown is together in thousands of young people this limitation,
and only weakly and traditionally operational on thousand of others.
The puritanical history of American city supposes that these cheerfulness
you/he/she is prevented, and that the roads are sober and decent for
young conscientious men and women that need any external protection. This
unfounded assumption, united to the fact that any adult has the
the trust of these young people to that continually they are submitted a
crowd of impressions imaginations, are almost sure to result
disastrously.

The social relationships in a modern city are made so with hurry and often
so superficial, that the old human limitations of public opinion, from a lot
sustained in smaller communities, you/he/she is also broken. Thousand of
the young men and women in every great city have not received none of the
lessons in self-control to that also wild tribes imparted them
children when they taught them them to dominate their appetites as
their emotions. Perhaps these young people are further from everybody
limitation of community and social and genuine control that the youth of the
community has ever been in the long history of the civilization. Certainly
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