This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIV THE TENTATIVE CHARACTER OF PROGRESS PROGRESS IS NOT IDENTICAL WITH GROWTH OP INTELLIGENT CON- TROL DEGREES--NOR IS IT DEMONSTRABLE--IT IS ESSBNTIALLT TENTATIVE I Cannot accept the view that progress is nothing more or other than the growth of intelligent control. No doubt this is a large ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIV THE TENTATIVE CHARACTER OF PROGRESS PROGRESS IS NOT IDENTICAL WITH GROWTH OP INTELLIGENT CON- TROL DEGREES--NOR IS IT DEMONSTRABLE--IT IS ESSBNTIALLT TENTATIVE I Cannot accept the view that progress is nothing more or other than the growth of intelligent control. No doubt this is a large part of it; an enlightened and organized public will is, perhaps, our most urgent need; but, after all, life is more than intelligence, and a conception that exalts this alone is sure to prove inadequate. Progress must be at least as many-faceted as the life we already know. Moreover, it is one of those ideas, like truth, beauty and right, which have an outlook upon the infinite, and cannot, in the nature of the case, be circumscribed by a definition. The truth is that it is often one of the requisites of progress that we trust to the vague, the instinctive, the emotional, rather than to what is ascertained and intellectual. The spirit takes on form and clarity only under the stress of experience: its newer outreachings are bound to be somewhat obscure and inarticulate. The young man who does not trust his vague intuitions as against the formulated wisdom of his elders will do nothing original. The opinion sometimes expressed that social science should set forth a definite, tangible criterion of progress is also, I think, based on a false conception of the matter, derived, perhaps, from mechanical theories of evolution. Until man himself is a mechanism the lines of his higher destiny can never be precisely foreseen. It is our part to form ideals and try to realize them, and these ideals give us a working test of progress, but there can be nothing certain or final about them. The method of our advance is, perhaps, best indicated by that which g
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Backstrip worn. Binding split and loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN:
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. From the private collection of Professor Ralph H. Turner. With his name neatly inked to top of front endpaper.; Tight, clean and crisp. A faint hint of shelf wear to dustjacket with a, tiny tear to top at rear otherwise As New. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. An excellent copy now protected in a new Mylar cover. As New.; Introduction by Roscoe C. Hinkle. Foreword by Herman R. Lantz.; Professor Turner was elected President of the American Sociological Association in 1969. His Presidential Address was entitled "The Public Perception of Protest".; 8.75 X 6 X 1.50 inches; 430 pages.
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