Word: civili
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Servan-Schreiber's work will naturally seem less revolutionary to Americans than to Europeans, from whom it demands, among other things, "a minimum of federalism." But it may come as a pleasant surprise for U.S. readers to see themselves, as at least one admiring Frenchman does, as a civili- zation whose "secret lies in the confidence of the society in its citizens." This confidence, says Servan-Schreiber. is manifested in such commonplace U.S. practices as continual reeducation of both executive and worker and in the delegation of responsibility that tries to "liberate initiative at every level." Europeans, he clearly says...
...historical structure of this civili zation finds itself in an agony...
...matter what is treated?debts, reparations, disarmament, security, credits, moneys, production, exchanges, tariffs, transports?in one word, peace and civili-zation?England and France engage themselves to prepare joint solutions...
...will quarrel with his thesis: that unhappiness is widespread through civili-zation?"very largely due to mistaken views of the world, mistaken ethics, mistaken habits of life . . . matters which lie within the power of the individual." Confesses Russell: "I was not born happy. ... In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life. . . . This is due partly . . . to having discovered what were the things that I most desired . . . partly ... to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire...
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