Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American ReformKnopf, 1952 - 503 pages |
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... Ideas IN THE CLOSING YEARS of his life Henry George listened to a friend bemoaning the poverty and corruption in New ... ideas in a capsule of con- versation , spoken with all the finality of a sigh . The ideas , of course , were no ...
... Ideas IN THE CLOSING YEARS of his life Henry George listened to a friend bemoaning the poverty and corruption in New ... ideas in a capsule of con- versation , spoken with all the finality of a sigh . The ideas , of course , were no ...
Page 122
... Ideas could and should change to give men what they sought ; ideas would give men their goals when the ideas called for creating an environment favor- able to the achievement of the goals . Here was a philosophy and a psychology ...
... Ideas could and should change to give men what they sought ; ideas would give men their goals when the ideas called for creating an environment favor- able to the achievement of the goals . Here was a philosophy and a psychology ...
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... ideas must be related to economic interest , they did not really mean all ideas ; they meant only their opponents ' ideas . So conservatism became a rationalization of greed , while the tenets of progressivism were " scientific ...
... ideas must be related to economic interest , they did not really mean all ideas ; they meant only their opponents ' ideas . So conservatism became a rationalization of greed , while the tenets of progressivism were " scientific ...
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Thrust from the | 9 |
From the Bottom Up | 24 |
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