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What is this Crisis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Read Bain*
Affiliation:
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Extract

When people talk about the “present crisis,” they probably mean some significant turning point in history. If they fear or resent it, it is a dangerous crisis, anti-American, anti-Christian, and antidemocratic. If they welcome it, they may call it the “wave of the future,” or some kind of a “deal,” new, square, or fair; prosperity is just around the corner. Only unwanted change produces the “dangerous crisis.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1953

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Footnotes

Read to the Ohio Valley Sociological Society, April 25, 1951 at Bloomington, Indiana.