jane adams. our friend jane adams. she writes, life in the settlement discovers above all it has been called the extraordinary pliability of human nature. a phrase she probably got from john stuart mill. and it seems impossible to set any bounds to the moral capability that might unfold under ideal civic and educational conditions. the point that we have been following all semester is that within progressivism there was this strong sense that in an industrialized united states large problems needed to be addressed, but that also with the development or the discovery of new knowledge, new ways of understanding, that these problems could be addressed, and that's a big deal, right? reforms could be enacted in society, in the lives of those living in the united states could be made better, happier, more fulfilled. that in a nutshell is what we have been doing all semester. now think of people born in, say 1840, what they had witnessed by the time the united states became involved in world war i in 1917. look at all that ha

make the link from this artistic sensibility we are describing and the kind of social reforms at jane adams might advocate. if we think about the adams biography, that whole progressive ease those. -- ethos, these problems in society can be broken down and they can be reassembled to make life better, to have more meaning. in a way, that is what these artists are doing. they are breaking down the subject, right? and then they are reassembling. critics of modernism however, as we will see, tended to focus on the breaking down part. they tended to focus on that a lot. cubism provoked some very strong negative reactions. it seemed to symbolize, be encouraging the feeling of the disintegration of the modern world itself. so the reaction against cubism really strong. for instance, this article that i passed out here in the fresno morning republican, september 27, 1913. in that little article that i copied for you here, the rider -- rightwriter makes a really interesting connection between cubism and labor radicalism. he says if the rights make you -- i.w.w. make you angry, try the antidote of goi

he was nursed by jane adams who would win a nobel prize herself as a social worker. the whole left got behind t.r. in 1912, and once he loses that, he got depressed. wilson is in, and he goes for another brutal expedition, this time to south america, the amazon brazil, traveling on a river over 600 miles, the river of no return, and shows amazing fortitude, but also immaturity by going. he said, it's my last chance to be a boy but he ended up trying to unlock a couple of boats and cut his leg. that open wound caused him to get an infection, and he does developed a malaria of some kind almost died down there. he asked to be left to die. he comes back. everybody here in new york city was never the same. he was constantly having leg problems. his vitality has largely evaporated, and it evaporates more when he has his son killed in the first world war. theodore roosevelt an early and ardent supporter of going in and taking it to the hun the kaiser's in germany. he was angry at woodrow wilson for being laxatives: -- glaxo days ago -- for being lacksidasical. he was very d

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