A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil
                                            
                            By Jane Addams
                            
                                7 Jan, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The following material, much of which has been published in McClure’s Magazine, was written, not from the point of view of the expert, but because of my own need for a counter-knowledge to a bewildering mass of information which came to me through 
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                                                The following material, much of which has been published in McClure’s Magazine, was written, not from the point of view of the expert, but because of my own need for a counter-knowledge to a bewildering mass of information which came to me through the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago. The reports which its twenty field officers daily brought to its main office adjoining Hull House became to me a revelation of the dangers implicit in city conditions and of the allurements which are designedly placed around many young girls in order to draw them into an evil life. Less