Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people before the American attachment to capitalism could be broken. Some such thing has happened in Germany," asserted Walter Lippman before his third capacity audience in New Lecture Hall. The last in this series of Godkin lectures will be given this afternoon and the whole series on "The Method of Freedom" will appear in book form next week...
Turning to Compensated Economy, which he defined as "the method being worked out among English speaking peoples, a method of social control which is not laisses faire, which is not communism, which is not Fascism, but the product of their own experience and their own genius...
...become necessary to create collective power, to mobilize technical resources, and to work out technical procedures by means of which the modern state can balance, equalize, neutralize, offset, correct the private judgments of masses of individuals. This is what I mean by a Compensated Economy and the method of free collectivism. . . . If is a conception which is not spun out of abstract theory . . . It is the method of freedom. The authority of the government is used to assist men in maintaining the security of an ordered life. The state, though it is powerful, is not the master of the people...
Upon close inspection, few people would believe in war, Fascism, or retrenchment in education. Yet the National Student League, with precisely the same opinions, has found that its existence at Harvard this year has aroused strong opposition. The difficulty lies in their method of attack, not in their principles...
...Method of Freedom", comprising the four Godkin lectures which Walter Lippmann 10' is delivering this week, will be issued in book form within the next ten days, it was learned yesterday...