The Supreme Religious Test Of

A Settlement Is Above All A Place For Enthusiasms, A Spot To Which Those Who Have A Passion For The Equalization Of Human Joys And Opportunities Are Early Attracted.

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

The Identification With The Common Lot Which Is The Essential Idea Of Democracy Becomes The Source And Expression Of Social Ethics. It Is As Though We Thirsted To Drink At The Great Wells Of Human Experience, Because We Knew That A Daintier Or Less Potent Draught Would Not Carry Us To The End Of The Journey, Going Forward As We Must In The Heat And Jostle Of The Crowd.

America's Future Will Be Determined By The Home And The School. The Child Becomes Largely What He Is Taught; Hence We Must Watch What We Teach, And How We Live.

Pliable Human Nature Is Relentlessly Pressed Upon By Its Physical Environment.