Social Sanity A Preface To The Book Of Social Progress

Author : Scott Nearing
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230413853
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Social Sanity; a Preface to the Book of Social Progress written by Scott Nearing and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... The various eras in history--the bends and reaches in the life stream--are characterized by certain great issues. To the world of to-day those issues are epitomized in the system of industry. Science has been bent industryward; knowledge is knowledge of industry; thought is largely of industrial problems; the profound modifications which the past century has made in the aspect of the physical world are, for the most part, modifications due to the new methods of making a living. The path to sane living is as plainly marked as a path could be. What normal man, aiming to support himself and to live his life as a normal man should, can miss the goal? What man indeed? Of course the answer rests in a measure with the man himself. Then, too, it is determined by his training. Most of all, perhaps, it is conditioned by the opportunities which present themselves for earning a living. It is pleasant as well as satisfying to expound life-philosophy. What could be more simple than a plea for welfare and for human rights? They are sufficiently removed from the world of affairs to be inconsequential to all except those who have leisure and ability for analysis, deduction, and contemplation. There are other things in life, however, which play so intimate a part in the affairs of to-day and to-morrow, that they are regarded by everyone--sometimes with dread, sometimes with misgiving, sometimes with joy, sometimes with anger and hate. Among these things, nothing plays a larger part in the lives of modern men than does labor. There is, of course, a handful of people to whom labor is but a word. Living lives of ease, shielded from the world, removed from all possible hardships or satisfactions, they exist like imported animals, caged from all except their...