Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Capitolo 19

visitor that fakes to be good to the poor man and he/she certainly speaks as
although she is of good heart, that for which she comes, if she doesn't do
does intend to give them things of which are so clearly had need?

The visitor sometimes, says so very hard that in the tender ones his/her poor family to
a standard of economy that she is breaking a rule to really live taller
what they previously possessed;  that saving that seems completely
praiseworthy in a comfortable part of city, it almost appears criminal in a
poorer quarter where the next-door food of necessity nearby, even if the
children of the family don't do.

You feel the sordidness of continually to be forced for exhorting the
industrial perspective of the life. The benevolent individual of fifty years ago
he/she honestly believed that industry and the abnegation in youth would have resulted in
comfortable possessions for the maturity. It was, indeed, the method that he had
practised in his/her his/her own youth, and from that he had probably gotten
whatever fortune that he has possessed. He blamed therefore the poor family for
satisfying their children, it exhorted them to work long times, and it was suddenly
intact from many scruples that they torment the contemporary charity
visitor. You sometimes say, "Because it owes me I speak to always find job and
money that it saves, the things I don't know anything around? If it were anything other
I had to exhort, I could do him/it;  anything as Latin prose that I had
worried through me, it would not be so hard." But she finds him/it
difficult to connect the experiences of his/her youth with the experiences
of the visited family.

Because of this difference in experiments, the visitor is continually
surprises to find that the surest insipidity can be challenged. You
it rather naturally refers to the "horrors of the cafe", and it discovers
what her head visited family it doesn't connect them with "horrors"
at all. He remembers the whole kindnesses that he has received there the free one,
lunch and treating what it follows, also when a man is out of job and not
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