Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Charles E. Merriam, of the University of Chicago, Godkin Lecturer at Harvard this year, will talk on "Democracy and Administrative Management," at 8 o'clock in Littauer Conter. This is the fourth of his series of Godkin lectures on "On the Agenda of Democracy...
...Merriam made a long attack on those political theorists who too closely associate methods of government and systems of economy. "Perhaps nothing in modern life has wrought more destruction than this assumption of the determining quality of factors vaguely called economic," he said...
Some of the tragedies resulting from the confusion of capitalism and democracy, according to Merriam, were that French industrialists, anxious to protect their privileges, preferred Hitlerism to Communism; and "British Tories" wanted to appease Hitler in order save capitalist profits...
...first thing in democracy is not economics but the dignity of man, the perfectibility of man, the fraternal basis of treatment and government by the consent of the governed," Merriam maintained. "Those who are not willing to stand up and fight for this program will find themselves thrown into hopeless confusion...
...Merriam emphasized the importance of the community's attitude in the maintenance and smooth working of democracy. "Relative willingness or unwillingness and relative competence or incompetence will determine the degree in which genuine democracy may operate...