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The Reconstruction of Humanity

The Reconstruction of Humanity

By Pitirim A. Sorokin

Beacon Press, 1948, 247 pp.

A leading sociologist trains the batteries of his scholarship on popularly cherished cures for war including democracy, prosperity, free enterprise, free speech, the United Nations and world government. His remedy, basic reforms within nation states which would stimulate and give freer play to the altruistic motives of individuals.