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Civilization at the Crossroads - II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

John U. Nef
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The last four or five decades have been a period of increasing tension and insecurity throughout the world, especially among the Western peoples. Pessimism, cynicism, and despair have gained the ascendancy over most of Europe; uncertainty and lack of confidence over much of the United States. It would be natural for businessmen and for social scientists, who measure civilization mainly in terms of real income or the volume of industrial production, to attribute this tension and discouragement to the slowing down in the rate of industrial progress, to the material crisis of the twentieth century.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 1941 , pp. 451 - 478
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1941

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