Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...system of individualism advocated is based on common sense and justice, and is not extreme, for an extreme system does not exist. In economics and politics it has a distinct meaning, a theory favoring non-interference of the State in the affairs of individuals. It is also defined as the private ownership of the means of production and distribution where competition is possible...
...MATHEMATICAL CLUB. Meeting in Memory of Professor Benjamin Peirce and Simon Newcomb. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...ethics, however, our civilization is distinctly mediaeval, inasmuch as our moral codes are based upon personal Intuition and not upon scientific research. Mr. MacKaye believes that if scientific principles are applied to our code of morals, it will be as easy to obtain happiness as to manufacture the most common product...
During the four more lectures that Mr. MacKaye will give, he will explain how scientific or, as he calls them, common sense methods may be adapted to the creation of an ethical system. This type of work that he has undertaken he calls "Political Engineering" or the science which treats of the adaptation of the means of society...
...MATHEMATICAL CLUB. Meeting in Memory of Professors Benjamin Peirce and Simon Newcomb. Common Room, Conant Hall...