Word: reactionist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Carver also says, a little higher, "The only way to combat the direct reactionist (sic) is to demonstrate to him that there is more force on the side of law" etc. Meaning, one demonstrates that one is right by having over-bearing physical force on one's side. Right, naturally, is on the side of the bigger club, just as in the good old days of the cave men. Are we to have cave-man morality or the principles of peace? Mr. Carver wants both...
...contemporary tests of the fitness of drivers of motor-vehicles, and the importance of the elimination of the unfit by some scientific process instead of by accident. His suggestion for a more effective and less costly method of elimination is ingenious, but not convincing. The test for the "slow reactionist" which the author sets up, will not disclose the possession or absence, of the capacity for forming quick and accurate judgments, the capacity commonly called presence of mind, which is certainly as important as spontaneity of reaction in the presence of danger. We wonder if Mr. Deane's essay...