SOURCE: "Jane Addams: The Community as a Neighborhood," in Eleven Against War: Studies in American Internationalist Thought, 1898-1921, Stanford University, 1969, pp. 114-49.

In the following excerpt, Herman explores the path by which Addams moved from philanthropic works to pacifism.

Cease to be the shadow of man and of his passion of pride and destruction. Have a clear vision of the duty of pity! Be a living peace in the midst of war—the eternal Antigone refusing to give herself up to hatred and knowing no distinction between her suffering brothers who make war on each other.

—Romain Rolland, quoted by Jane Addams, The Long Road of Woman's Memory, 1916

The pragmatism that Royce regarded as only a partial account of truth because it ignored the community of truth-seekers, had its own communal ethic. Grounded in evolutionary science, rather than in metaphysical logic, this pragmatism produced plans for social reconstruction...