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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... I. The Community and the' Individual To many of us the war came as a great awakening; it forced on our attention facts of which we were quite unconscious. Some of us had dreamed that war with all its horrors was a thing that we had outgrown; Mr. Buckle thought it survived exceptionally among less advanced peoples; Mr. Angel thought that the world would realise that all countries were so interrelated that it never could be to the interest of any one to go to war. But war, with accumulated horrors, has not only been possible--it was deliberately planned by a nation which believed that in pursuing its own interest at this juncture it would bring about the better organisation of the world. But if the outbreak of the war was a shock, the difficulties which have arisen since the war have also been a revelation. We had been wont to assume that organised society, as we knew it before the war, was a good thing--not by any means perfect, but with faults which might be corrected, especially by a diffusion of education; and it has been quite new to many of us to realise that underneath the widely spread industrial unrest lies a deep dissatisfaction with society as organised, and that while most of us are anxious for speedy reconstruction on similar but improved lines, there are others who regard capital as the enemy, and the bourgeoisie and intellectual elements in society as useless parasites. Many of us have not found it necessary to go very thoroughly into the rationale of civilised society, but have assumed with Locke that every man would find an advantage in living under the authority of law, and would enjoy his personal life in greater security. Those who hold that, though this is true for people who have property, organised society is of no advantage to those ...
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About the Author
William Cunningham is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota where he taught for 36 years in the Departments of Botany and Genetics and Cell Biology as well as the Conservation Biology Program, the Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability, the Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership, and the McArthur Program in Global Change. He received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Texas in 1963 and spent two years at Purdue University as a postdoctoral fellow. At various times, he has been a visiting scholar in Sweden, Norway, Indonesia, and China, as well as several universities and research institutions in the United States. Dr. Cunningham has devoted himself to education and teaching development at the undergraduate level in biology. He began his educational career in structural biology but for the last 10-15 years has concentrated on environmental science, teaching courses such as Social Uses of Biology; Garbage, Government, and the Globe; Environmental Ethics; and Conservation History. Within the past four years, he has received both of the two highest teaching honors that the University of Minnesota bestows -- The Distinguished Teaching Award and a $15,000 Amoco Alumni Award. He has served as a Faculty Mentor for younger faculty at the university, sharing the knowledge and teaching skills that he has gained during his distinguished career.
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