Jan 16
My dear Miss Addams:I have just risen from reading your Democracy and Social Ethics and wish to thank you for the helpfulness of that book.
Political Economy and Sociology (in which subjects I am a graduate student) have advanced beyond the conception of the "Economic man" to one of the more human individual but they are yet a long way from the real, social human being who realizes kindness much more quickly than justice.
President Hulburd of the Elgin Watch Company in a lecture at the University this week stated the problem on which you also touch in your book-–that of idealizing labor; to get the workman, who performs a very small part of production of an article, to feel the joy of creation. Perhaps you might be able to suggest to him and other students of the problem a line along which to work out a solution.
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