Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-gvh9x Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-16T16:37:58.441Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Recent Political Developments: Progress or Change?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Harry A. Garfield*
Affiliation:
Williams College

Extract

It used to be said by a certain learned professor opposed to departure from old and familiar paths, “Gentlemen, all progress is change, but not all change is progress.”

In every department of human affairs, in every quarter of the civilized world, the contrast between conditions in the late eighties and the present time is amazing—not conditions only but the difference in attitudes, in beliefs, in human relations. We may well ask ourselves, Whither? Certainly it is incumbent upon us to consider the character of these changes—whether they are making for progress—and what steps we are taking or can take to meet them. I ask you to consider with me two aspects of this question, one affecting industrial and the other international relations. In each case the proposals heretofore offered to meet the situation appear to fall into one of two categories, the first mechanistic, the second educative; the first, an attempt to meet a new situation by introducing new devices of control; the second by a process of education to modify or change men's attitude and belief.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1924

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

1

Presidential address delivered before the American Political Science Association at Columbus, O., December 27, 1923.

References

1 Presidential address delivered before the American Political Science Association at Columbus, O., December 27, 1923.

Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.