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Quotation from Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
“The Settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city.”
Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter VI, Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325))
Her definition of the settlement, from an address of 1892 reprinted in the chapter.
Citation: "The Settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city." — Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter VI, Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325)). (id twenty-years-at-hull-house-q5)
Portrait: ADDAMS, JANE 21664v (cropped2), Harris Ewing, publisher, Public domain.
