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University settlements\n\n[n.p.]  \n[n.d.]  \nCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION  \n## BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n### RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n Roproductions may not be made without permlssion from Columbla UniversityLbranies.                   \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nⅡ:   \nIIB  \nREDUCTION RATIO:  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nINITIALS:         B  \nDATE FILMED:                  1-13-97  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                20130  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n308  \n2  \n3=0x9  \n## UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENTS\n\nBy ROBERT A.WOODS  \n[FRoM THE ANDOVER REVIW FOR OCTOBKR,189z]  \nUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENTS.  \n                 \nI.  \nTHE UNIVERSITY SETTLEMEKT IDEA.  \nIs the movement toward a better social life which is goingforward nearly everywhere now,there is a resemblance to thegreat changes that took place at the end of the Middle Ages,outof which came the nations of modern Europe.All Europe hadfor the time forgotten itself in the excitement and adventure ofthe Crusades.Anew and strange world,with its unusual eustomsand activities,had come into general knowledge,and began togive men a fresh look at their old surroundings from an alteredpoint of view.A great moral impulse,which united all classesof society,and men from distant places,threw aside the pettyrule of feudal lords and made the minds of the people open to thethought of being held together in the larger national bond.  \nAt present we are returning from the modern kind of adven-ture,—from exploration,enterprise,invention.Applying to thegeneral life of men the new conception of complex and intimaterelationships which the advance of science has brought,and theidea of unity which is the note of the philosophy of the time,weare working toward vast changes in the life of modern society,not perhaps so visible and outward as those involved in the forma-tion of nations,but so profound as to be likely to make over theinner and closer life of modern people.  \n1An address given a the School of Applied Ethics,at Plymouth,Angust 2.This snme subject was briefly touched upon in the Sociological Notes of thenumber for January of this year.  \nUniversity Settlements.  \nThe old bond of union was that of a political compact;thenew bond of union is that of a social organism.It must haveseemed difficult enough for those who had known only loyaltyto a local lord to think of large numbers of duchies being heldtogether by the single power of one great ruler;to think of aninfluence which should permeate into the different villages,andbring each into a common feeling with all the rest.The progressof republican government was held back at first,and is stillgreatly hindered,by the feeling that the people as rnlers can wieldonly an intangible and ineffective force,as against the amorphousand unwieldy mass of the people as the subjects of government.But the idea of the nation,and of the self-governed nation,isnow a commonplace;it is the idea of the social organism that we,in our tun,are struggling to make real to ourselves.  \nCivilizntion is overreaching itself.Certain of its tendenciesdevelop rankly,before corrective tendencies have begun to oper-ate.The result is congestion in some places,and atrophy inothers.We must find ways of uniting the parts of the socialbody,under the bonds of civilization,so that its vital influenceshall not linger sluggishly at certain centres,but shall run stronglyout into every distant extremity.Itis no longer the negative endsof safety and freedom that are most to be sought for;it is as tothe living out of life among the people that we are concerned.What has been left undone by spent forces will be accomplishedthrough the rising momentum of new forces.We find our-selves compelled,to-day,in the interest of civilization itself,tosee that the influences of civilization penetrate into all the 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