Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Capitolo 92

and despising the damaged and poor things that beat around on the bank.
Him--the lecturer--doesn't say anything on men, but enough it is easy
to think about us poor devils on the dry bank, fighting without enough to
long live on, while the comfortable individuals sail long in the water with everybody
they wants and they despise us because we beat around." His/her listener didn't do
answers, and both was evidently displeased with the explanation and the
question. Undoubtedly the illustration was botching in more than its
exposing, but the history is suggestive.

To durations of social trouble the respectful citizen of the law is naturally this way
anxious for the peace and it orders, its understanding are so justly and inevitably
on the side that constitutes the restoration of law, that is difficult for
him to fairly see the situation. He becomes insensitive to the altruist
impelled that can incite a comprehensive strike in account of the workers
in a shop of not-union, because he allows his/her mind to exclusively indulge on
the trouble that has been in partnership with the strike. He is
entirely side-tracked from the ugly phases of a great moral movement. It
it is a temptation to always suppose that the side that has the respectability,
authority and the superior intelligence, have therefore the rectitude as
well, especially when the same presents of side concrete results of
individual effort as above against the least tangible results of
I force in partnership.

It is still as more difficulty for us to free us from the
individualistic point of view sufficiently to gather events in them
social relationships and to fairly judge that to that you/they are looking for
produces a social result through all the difficulties of it associated
action. The philanthropist finds a lot still his/her run easier than does
those that are trying a social morality. In the first place, the
public, anxious to praise that as which it recognizes a sure moral
effort often frequented with the true personal sacrifice, cheerfully it grabs on
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