Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Capitolo 11

you/he/she is compensated out still of every proportion to some other, his/her possession
it is from any means supposed for implicating the possession of the tallest moral
quality. We have learned to judge as good men from their social virtues
as from their ability of business, from their devotion to intellectual and
disinterested purposes, and from their public spirit, and we naturally hear again there
being forced for so only judging poor people on the industrial side.
Our democratic instinct immediately takes alarm. It is greatly in this
modern tendency to judge all the men from a democratic standard, while the
the old benevolent attitude commonly allowed the use of two standards that
a lot of some difficulty sticks. We know that physical and incessant toil
it becomes bringing and making ugly, and our position is totally indefensible
if we only judge the our great numbers of individuals on their success in
maintaining him/it.

The gently benevolent visitor and dressed that advances in the small house
done disarranged by the vigorous efforts of his/her hostess, the laundress, is
surer than his/her superiority per second;  she recognizes that her
hostess after all represents social value and I uses industrial, as on
against her his/her own parasitic cleaning and a social position reached
only through status.

The only families that ask question for help to the benevolent agencies are those
who have come to the pain on the industrial side;  you/he/she can be through
illness, through loss of job or for other without guilt and inevitable
reasons;  but the rests of fact what they is industrially grieving, and
you/he/she must have sustained and you/he/she must have helped in industrial health. The charity
visitor, allows us to suppose, you/he/she is a young woman of university, well-mannered and
of wide views;  when her visit the family assigned to her, she is often
embarrassed to find been forced to placed the whole stress of her
teaching and I recommend on the industrial virtues, and to treat the
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