Word: progress
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This deduction is not justified. Masaryk was a liberal middle class democrat of the best sort. He was in sympathy with the progress that was being made in his country. He clearly did not support those, reactionary forces which sought to check it. However, after the events of two weeks ago, he saw in Czechoslovakia the beginnings of a new type of society, a socialist society of workers and farmers, one in which the centuries-long cycle of exploitation was to be brought to a close. But this was also a society in which his class and the ideology...
After the war Pyke addressed himself with his usual passionate intensity to the problems of peace. "The underlying issue of our time," he wrote, "is whether our civilization can be reformed or whether, for progress, a revolution is essential...
They never did. Waiting in the wings was one of the most luridly confusing quarter-centuries in the history of man. Progress appeared, unexpectedly, in Turkey, where Mustapha Kemal led a westernizing crusade. In Italy, Benito Mussolini had marched on Rome but was not yet (quite) a dictator. The only man who called himself that was Gustav von Kahr, Dictator of Bavaria, against whom Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler plotted. In the U.S., John L. Lewis,* who had risen from statistician to president in the United Mine Workers, was getting ready for a trip to Europe. In New York, Franklin...
Under the bland influence of the idea of progress, man, supposing himself more & more to be the measure of all things, achieved a singularly easy conscience and an almost hermetically smug optimism. The idea that man is sinful and needs redemption was subtly changed into the idea that man is by nature good and hence capable of indefinite perfectibility. This perfectibility is being achieved through technology, science, politics, social reform, education. Man is essentially good, says 20th Century liberalism, because he is rational, and his rationality is (if the speaker happens to be a liberal Protestant) divine...
Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the oldtime religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination of orthodoxy for an age dominated by such trends as rationalism, liberalism, Marxism, fascism, idealism and the idea of progress...