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...capacity crowd in Rindge Tech High School auditorium witnessed an abstract, sometimes violent, but always lively argument between Norman Thomas, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy...
Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, complete the panel which will try to answer the question: "Are we losing our moral values in our fight against Communism...
...best in Gibbon: his sly wit, his stately prose rhythms, his knack for making the mummies of history sit up on the printed page and kick off their wrappings, and his intoxication with the grandeur of Rome. Not a philosopher of history in the vein of Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin, but a true son of the Age of Reason, Gibbon blamed Rome's downfall on the "triumph of barbarism and religion."* His dim view of Christianity shocked his own and successive generations...
...Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin respectively blame "civilization," "inherent defects," and "Sensatism" (roughly, materialism). Other ideas range from malaria to birth control...
...Modern psychology," Salter goes on, "has shown Freud's map of the mind to be as inaccurate and wildly fanciful as the pre-Columbian maps of the New World." And with approval he quotes Sociologist Pitirim Sorokin: "What is sound in Freudianism is very old; what is new, very doubtful...