In This Review
In This Review

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.
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