“I think it a moral duty,” she said. “If one inherits the privilege of wealth, or of education or good family, one must use that privilege wisely. Men speak of progress like a machine, an engine that rolls forward without human direction, pulling everyone with it. But that isn’t true. If you read the newspapers” – the critical, adventurous, daring newspapers, not the conservative rags that her uncle favored – “it’s easy to see that many get left behind. Many, in fact, get crushed.”