This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... much about this subject, but they cannot differ more widely than do the experts. However, out of all such conflicts of opinion there is apt to come in time balance and poise, just as out of the struggle for physical existence there comes adjustment and adaptation. It is not without reason that we call those judgments ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... much about this subject, but they cannot differ more widely than do the experts. However, out of all such conflicts of opinion there is apt to come in time balance and poise, just as out of the struggle for physical existence there comes adjustment and adaptation. It is not without reason that we call those judgments which have been reached by multitudes of men as the result of "trial and error," and finally trial and success, "common sense," and recognize it as the highest type of practical judgment. Our lack of co-operation has been even more evident than that of specialization. Insistence on personal freedom and on the rights of individuals has gone far toward weakening the bonds of union and destroying co-operation. The disharmonies of society, and the conflicts of interests and minds and purposes, have come largely from the exalting of individual rights over social obligations. We need a new Revolution which will enforce the duties of man, as our former Revolution emphasized the rights of man. How easily the disharmonies of society could be silenced, and the conflicts between individuals and classes and nations could be settled, if men were taught to think more of their duties and less of their rights. Unquestionably the further evolution of society must lie in the direction of greater co-operation, and any system of organization which exalts individual freedom to the detriment of social union and harmony must go under in the struggle for existence. These very serious defects in our social organization are not so much the results of democracy as of the character, education, and condition of the people; the perfection or imperfection of the social system is a reflection of the popular intelligence and morality. Ignorant and selfish ...
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