Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to the guilt complex of many intellectuals who are "painfully aware of the social and economic miseries of their society" Berlin admits that the claims of social welfare are "indeed urgent, yet they must not be allowed to absorb the whole of life...
...Social Consequences Unimportant...
...feel sure that neither Michelangelo nor Mozart, neither Newton nor Hume nor Gauss nor Einstein gave a conscious thought to social consequences while they were engaged in their labors...
Recent action by the Social Relations Department in suppressing irresponsible undergraduate polling has raised larger issues of the growing responsibilities of social science. Infant branches of learning, before they reach maturity, are sometimes given to extravagant claims and methods in an effort to win a place in the sun of public recognition. Only age brings tentative wisdom to eager disciples of new faiths...
...College Social Relations Department, under the restraining hand of Professor Gordon W. Allport, has limited its zealots to sensible and reasonable procedures. Last week one misguided undergraduate got a quantity of polls from his victims in envelopes that were carefully numbered under the stamps, although the poll was termed "anonymous" by its author. Professor Allport has burned these self-incriminating documents-some students had expressed Communist views-and has sent letters of apology to all recipients...