Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This reaction has been of unusual interest to TIME'S editors. For them, the story of Historian Toynbee and his work in progress was an unusual challenge and opportunity. They were concerned with introducing to TIME'S readers a creative scholar whose deliberations on the course of civilizations were not widely known in the U.S. outside of academic circles. But seldom has an academic subject been so newsworthy...
...been politically inspired. But there could be no doubt of its professional impartiality. The investigators, headed by Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, blamed both the mine owners and the United Mine Workers for the fact that a large part of the nation's mining population, "bypassed" by progress, "has benefited little by improved standards of housing and health." Some findings...
...where is it moving? Nearly all scientific progress thus far, says Dr. Conant, has been in the "natural sciences"-those concerned with man's environment, rather than with man himself. The "social sciences" (everything from psychology to history) have certainly not given man much help in keeping up with the flood of revolutionary knowledge and techniques developed by the natural sciences. Science's next broad campaign may be to develop the social sciences to the point where they do some good...
Modern Pilgrim's Progress. This is exemplified in The Castle. The Castle is an inverted Pilgrim's Progress. Its subject is a man's obsessive struggle to achieve God (the Castle)-who does not recognize man's vocation-while trying to integrate himself in the community of men (the village at the foot of the Castle)-who do not want him. K., a land surveyor, believes that he has been ordered to take a job at the Castle. But when he arrives, at night, in winter, he is rudely ordered off the premises. The Castle authorities...
Modern Book of Job. If The Castle is a modern Pilgrim's Progress, The Trial is a 20th Century Book of Job. Like Job, Joseph K. is a good and upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil. The Trial reports his oncreeping sense of guilt as a human being and the slow progress of that divine, intangible, but inexorable Justice to which he therefore feels that he must submit ("You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such...