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182 that they are all brothers after all, is the ideal for which the settlement stands. To discover the inside facts of a community, so as to coördinate and direct its social forces, is a work that gives satisfactory results and answers the demand for a scientific method. The settlement resident believes that the evolution of society is as much a process of nature as is organic evolution, and that a broad principle underlies all social processes. The practical and experimental development of this principle, in the spirit of humanity, will perhaps be the most valuable contribution of the settlement movement to the science of sociology.