Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American ReformVintage Books, 1956 - 503 pages |
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Page 91
... Social Darwinism , " society , too , was an organism that evolved by the survival of the fittest . Exist- ing social institutions were therefore the " fittest " way of doing things , and businessmen who bested their competitors had ...
... Social Darwinism , " society , too , was an organism that evolved by the survival of the fittest . Exist- ing social institutions were therefore the " fittest " way of doing things , and businessmen who bested their competitors had ...
Page 142
... Social Forces in American History . With an eye fixed steadily on the cash nexus , Simons ran through all American history . " Political struggles , " he generalized in the first words of Social Forces , are " based upon economic ...
... Social Forces in American History . With an eye fixed steadily on the cash nexus , Simons ran through all American history . " Political struggles , " he generalized in the first words of Social Forces , are " based upon economic ...
Page 143
... social evolu- tion . " His economic interpretation of the American past , Simons maintained , imputed no moral condemnation of the capitalist groups ; their rise to power was an ineluctable part of evolutionary progress . But Simons's ...
... social evolu- tion . " His economic interpretation of the American past , Simons maintained , imputed no moral condemnation of the capitalist groups ; their rise to power was an ineluctable part of evolutionary progress . But Simons's ...
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Bejabers Im Worth Me Thousands | 3 |
Thrust from the Top | 10 |
From the Bottom Up | 29 |
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