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think he had had a connection with the University Settlement before he went away. That would be my guess. Anyhow, he went back there. At once he became an important person, because he was a man who came and spoke as a philosopher and was profoundly interested in the work of the University Settlement, supporting it and promoting it.

At some point in here, and I don't know where, he got connected with the Ethical Culture Society. I don't remember whether there was a special Ethical Culture Society on the East Side. Felix Adler was then running the Ethical Culture Society on Central Park West. I don't think that Moskowitz was up there. I don't recall that, though he was quite close to Adler. I think there was a branch over on the East Side somewhere. At any rate, that was his interest.

His immediate line was social progress. His philosophy had led him to the conception that social progress is possible, that social progress is desirable, and that social progress can be accomplished by the good will and cooperation of man. So he allied himself with that. That was his passion. That was his basic interest.

That was what he was married to when he married Belle Israels. This other thing came first at every point. I don't suppose they ever debated his right to have his separate opinion on it. He had a trained mind and she had a brilliant