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Sacrificing the spirit of youth to materialism may imperil civilization by reducing it to mechanism
Drawn from what Jane Addams said
What Jane Addams actually said
- Jane Addams American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935)
We may at last discover that we are imperiling our civilization at the moment of its marked materialism, by wantonly sacrificing to that materialism the eternal spirit of youth, the power of variation, which alone is able to prevent it from degenerating into a mere mechanism.
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↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org
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