What Jane Addams thinks about America

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American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935); Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1931; author of Democracy and Social Ethics.

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1. c. 1906

   Our readingMuch of the maladministration of American cities may trace to survivals of military codes in their founding

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   Their wordsThey depended upon penalties, coercion, compulsion, remnants of military codes, to hold the community together; and it may be possible to trace much of the maladministration of our cities to these survivals, to the fact that our early democracy was a moral romanticism, rather than a well-grounded belief in social capacity and in the efficiency of the popular will.

   ↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book