Lester F. Ward: A Personal SketchG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922 - 208 pages |
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Applied Sociology Bachofen beautiful believed biological Brown University called CAPE CHAPTER character classes Comte cosmic Cosmos cycads desire diaries Dynamic Sociology emancipated emotional environment error evolution express feel felt G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS genius George Eliot give Glimpses gynæcocentric theory Haeckel human race Iconoclast ideas individual intellectual interest knew knowledge large number lectures Lester F LESTER FRANK WARD Lester Ward lived looked mankind mind Mind Problem Monism Morals morning never once organization phenomena principle progress Psychic Factors Pure Sociology relations religion remarked says scientific sense sincere social forces Social Statics society Sociocracy Sociogenetic Forces soul speak spoke Susquehanna Collegiate Institute sympodial Synergy system of philosophy talk teach telesis telic things thought tion true truth volumes walk Ward Room Ward's Washington woman words write written wrote
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Page v - Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Page 174 - The individual has reigned long enough. The day has come for society to take its affairs into its own hands and shape its own destinies. The individual has acted as best he could. He has acted in the only way he could. With a consciousness, will, and intellect of his own he could do nothing else than pursue his natural ends.
Page 176 - Sociocracy would confer benefits in strict proportion to merit, but insists upon equality of opportunity as the only means of determining the degree of merit.
Page 201 - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
Page 75 - Schopenhauer that matter is causality involves an ellipsis. It is not matter but collision that constitutes the only cause. This eternal pelting of atoms, this driving of the elements, this pressure at every point, this struggle of all created things, this universal nisus of nature, pushing into existence all material forms and storing itself up in them as properties, as life, as feeling, as thought, this is the hylozoism of the philosophers, the self-activity of Hegel, the will of Schopenhauer,...
Page 180 - ... of a higher life are concerned, those swarming, spawning millions, the bottom layer of society, the proletariat, the working classes, the "hewers of wood and drawers of water," nay, even the denizens of the slums — that all these are by nature the peers of the boasted "aristocracy of brains...
Page 179 - For an indefinite period yet to come society will continue to be recruited from the base. The swarming and spawning millions of the lower ranks will continue in the future as in the past to swamp all the fruits of intelligence and compel society to assimilate this mass of crude material as best it can. This is commonly looked upon as the deplorable consequence of the demographic law referred to, and it is said that society is doomed to hopeless degeneracy.
Page 151 - These are : ( 1 ) the law of Aggregation, as distinguished from that of Evolution proper; (2) the theory of the Social Forces, and the fundamental antithesis which they imply between feeling and function; (3) the contrast between these true Social Forces and the guiding influence of...
Page 167 - The gynaecocentric theory is the view that the female sex is primary and the male secondary in the organic scheme, that originally and normally all things center, as it were, about the female, and that the male, though not necessary in carrying out the scheme, was developed under the operation of the principle of advantage to secure organic progress through the crossing of strains.
Page 175 - This general social art, the scientific control of the social forces by the collective mind of society for its advantage...