Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American ReformKnopf, 1952 - 503 pages |
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Page 85
... Ideas * N THE closing years of his life Henry George listened to a City . " What do you propose to do about it ... ideas in a capsule of conversation , spoken with all the finality of a sigh . The ideas , of course , were no ...
... Ideas * N THE closing years of his life Henry George listened to a City . " What do you propose to do about it ... ideas in a capsule of conversation , spoken with all the finality of a sigh . The ideas , of course , were no ...
Page 158
... ideas would give men their goals when the ideas called for creating an environ- ment favorable to the achievement of the goals . Here was a philosophy and a psychology perfectly tailored to progressive needs . From Henry George to ...
... ideas would give men their goals when the ideas called for creating an environ- ment favorable to the achievement of the goals . Here was a philosophy and a psychology perfectly tailored to progressive needs . From Henry George to ...
Page 199
... ideas must be related to economic interest , they did not really mean all ideas ; they meant only their opponents ' ideas . So con- servatism 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 con- servatism became a rationalization of greed , while the tenets of progressivism were " scientific ...
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