One's fiftieth year is indeed an impressive milestone at which one may well pause to take an accounting, but the people with whom I have so long journeyed have become so intimate a part of my lot that they cannot be written of either in praise or blame the public movements and causes with which I am still identified have become so endeared, some of them through their very struggles and failures, that it is difficult to discuss them. Many times during the writing of these reminiscences, I have become convinced that the task was undertaken all too soon. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1912 (c.1910)ĮVERY preface is, I imagine, written after the book has been completed and now that I have finished this volume I will state several difficulties which may put the reader upon his guard unless he too postpones the preface to the very last. From: Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes.īy Jane Addams.
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