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...altruistic transformation" of social institutions is the only possible way to save mankind from destruction, Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, said last night at a Social Relations Society lecture in Emerson Hall...
...Sorokin insisted that a return to the "norms of the Sermon on the Mount" and the practicing of friendship toward all nations would prevent future wars. He denied that such "popular prescriptions" as democracy, education, or religion are sufficient to prevent the "termination of man's history on the planet...
Even if the Kremlin adopted a democratic form of government, the speaker asserted, the chance of war would not be reduced, since "democracies are no less militaristic and turbulent than autocracies." In a study made by the Research Center in Creative Altruism, founded in 1949 and headed by Sorokin, it was found that democratic countries engaged in war just as much as autocratic ones...
Brief's anonymous analysis was written without Sorokin's knowledge, as was the Chinese translation which he received last week from Hong Kong. His work has now been translated into 36 different languages, "more than any other sociologist," he said, "including Mr. Toynbee...
...Sorokin considers the appearance of such articles in "the very popular magazines" to be a good sign of the growing interest in creative altruism. "Books about my books are increasingly being published," he said...