At the same time. another group of followers of Darwin saw in social evolution something that could be controlled by man. and toward beneficial ends. unlike biological evolution. These were the forerunners of today’s self-styled “liberals” and what Cynthia Eagle Russett. in her wonderful book. Darwin in America. calls Reform Darwinists. a category that originated with her. Cynthia Eagle Russett. Darwin in America: The Intellectual Response. 1865-1912. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. 1976.
The country demands bold persistent experimentation
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails. admit it frankly and try another.”^ That was Roosevelt II and a good statement of Reform Darwinism. What our Sage had already observed is that with reforms come reformers. who are job function email list very difficult to get rid of after the effects of the reform wear off or even if the reforms are counterproductive from the start. Reformers do not frankly admit their failure. Franklin D. Roosevelt. quoted in a review of David M. Kennedy. Freedom from Fear. Times Literary Supplement. 2000.3.10.
I don’t think the Sage of Baltimore ever commented upon the G.I. Bill that enabled millions of returning .
World War II veterans to become first-generation
college students. This had prodigious consequences for American life. but the odd fact is that the Federal government spends several times that amount today. in constant dollars. with the net effect of only increasing the total number of college graduates. both of genuine colleges and dumbed-down colleges. by perhaps three percent. Even how a lack of online presence is holding your business back from growth programs that do work lose their effectiveness. Part of what drives the New Creationists is a healthy disrespect for the authorities that run programs that don’t work. no longer work. or work perversely.
Whole nations can groan under the strain
Accumulating pressure groups. as the late Mancur Olson argued in _The Rise and Decline of Nations. and so can whole civilizations. as bahrain lists Carroll Quigley argued in The Evolution of Civilizations. Mancur Olson. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth. Stagflation. and Social Rigidities (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1982). Carroll Quigley. _The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis (New York: Macmillan. 1961; reprinted Indianapolis: LibertyPress. 1979).