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Whatever promotes social insight, then, ren ders a social service by contributing in some deh gree to the solution of the social problem of the hour. And insight into the real significance and character of modern industrial relation ships, and plain talk about them, is the partie ular need of our time. Industrial society is far from perfect. Worse than that, it is in large part a pretence. Historically it has served a valuable purpose. But it has been the fate Of social institutions, no matter how valu able in their day, to be supplanted by something better; and who will deny that it must also be said of the present industrial order, This, too, shall pass away.
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Whatever promotes social insight, then, ren ders a social service by contributing in some deh gree to the solution of the social problem of the hour. And insight into the real significance and character of modern industrial relation ships, and plain talk about them, is the partie ular need of our time. Industrial society is far from perfect. Worse than that, it is in large part a pretence. Historically it has served a valuable purpose. But it has been the fate Of social institutions, no matter how valu able in their day, to be supplanted by something better; and who will deny that it must also be said of the present industrial order, This, too, shall pass away.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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It is a commonplace remark that social progress should be by evolution and not by revolution. It is, indeed, something more (or less) than a commonplace. Progress is, itself, a phase, and revolution an incident, of evolution. The remark, therefore, easily analyses itself into the expression, Social evolution should come by social evolution, - no momentous contribution to social philosophy.
If, however, one means by such: a remark that progress should be peaceful, it does not yet express all that is desired in a theory of social advancement. For social progress may be peaceful and yet be exceedingly slow, and involve excessive waste. It should be not only peaceful but conscious and intelligent. It may then be rapid and permanent. This, however, demands a genuine recognition on the part of the people of the injustice inherent in existing social relationships, and a fairly definite conception of social well-being, - of the actual and the ideal, of how we live and how we might live.
The first step, then, to ordered social progress is general social insight. Before we can have a better society it must somehow get into the minds of the people.
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