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Peace and Progress shows how reducing misery and embracing science, industry, and inquiry can bring lasting well-being—without war.
This concise work argues that genuine happiness comes from peaceful progress, not victorious battles. It weighs the costs of war against the gains of peace and highlights how scientific and social advances have shaped human advancement.
In clear, accessible language, the book examines how society benefits when people focus on learning, invention, and cooperation rather than conflict. It challenges the idea that wars are necessary for progress and offers a provocative, balanced look at history, ethics, and policy.- Understand the connection between peace, prosperity, and moral progress
- Explore how science, industry, and culture contribute to better living
- Compare the short-term thrills of conflict with the long-term gains of harmony
- See arguments about the real costs of war and the enduring value of peaceful invention
Ideal for readers seeking a calm, evidence-based perspective on how societies flourish through peaceful means and continued inquiry.
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SO rapid is their advance, that events in the social world are apt to leave the preconceived ideas Of philosophers in the rear. Hence the pacific movement which, for some years past, has been making considerable progress, and is likely before long to become even more extensive, has received but feeble support from philosophy. It owed its initiation to politicians and philanthropists, and they it is who are helping to develop it.
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So rapid is their advance, that events in the social world are apt to leave the preconceived ideas of philosophers in the rear. Hence the pacific movement which, for some years past, has been making considerable progress, and is likely before long to become even more extensive, has received but feeble support from philosophy. It owed its initiation to politicians and philanthropists, and they it is who are helping to develop it. With all due regard to the opinions of men such asL eibnitz and Kant, not to mention the names of yet profounder thinkers, on the subject of perpetual peace, we are bound to admit that psychology in general has hardly allowed itself to be sufficiently interested in this question. Has this arisen, we may ask, from indifference or scepticism but after all, what matter? The main fact remains, that progress is being made in every direction, and it is of little moment to know to whom we owe the work.
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