twenty years at hull house

dren in happier households never dream of doing. Perhaps Mr. Caird

could tell me whether there was any religious content in this

Faith to each other; this fidelity

Of fellow wanderers in a desert place.

But when tea was over and my opportunity came for a talk with my

host, I suddenly remembered, to the exclusion of all other associations, only Mr. Caird's fine analysis ot Abraham Lincoln, delivered in

a lecture two years before.

The memory of Lincoln, the mention of his name, came like a refreshing breeze from off the prairie, blowing aside all the scholarly implications in which I had become so reluctantly involved, and as the

philosopher spoke of the great American "who was content merely to

dig the channels through which the moral life of his countrymen

might flow," I was gradually able to make a natural connection between this intellectual penetration at Oxford and the moral perception

which is always necessary for the discovery of new methods by which

to minister to human needs. In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice

and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the

propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to

the barren places of life.

Gradually a healing sense of well-being enveloped me and a quick

remorse for my blindness, as I realized that no one among his own

countrymen had been able to interpret Lincoln's greatness more nobly

than this Oxford scholar had done, and that vision and wisdom as well

as high motives must lie behind every effective stroke in the continuous labor for human equality; I remembered that another Master of

Balliol, Jowett himself, had said that it was fortunate for society that *every age possessed at least a few minds which, like Arnold Toynbee's,

were "perpetually disturbed over the apparent inequalities of mankind." Certainly both the English and American Settlements could

unite in confessing to that disturbance of mind.

Traces of this Oxford visit are curiously reflected in a paper I wrote *soon after my return at the request of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. It begins as follows: —

The word "settlement," which we have borrowed from London, is apt to grate a little upon American ears. It is not, after all,