Taking up a pair of binoculars of his own invention, designated "The Relation of Modern Business Order to Society," Mr. Ferguson looks up and looks down at our chaotic little world, and finds it badly in need of reorganization. Others have done this before him. His distinction is that he employs a different set of binoculars. But in the course of his examination we learn several interesting facts. We learn, for example, that Big Business is mischievous and often acts the part of the malicious dunce simply because we have ...
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Taking up a pair of binoculars of his own invention, designated "The Relation of Modern Business Order to Society," Mr. Ferguson looks up and looks down at our chaotic little world, and finds it badly in need of reorganization. Others have done this before him. His distinction is that he employs a different set of binoculars. But in the course of his examination we learn several interesting facts. We learn, for example, that Big Business is mischievous and often acts the part of the malicious dunce simply because we have either ignored it ourselves or given it a bad name. Big Business needs to be Montessori-ed. It needs the privilege of being allowed to play freely with the other youngsters of our social family - diplomacy, politics, and internationalism. Big Business has become lonesome and aggrieved. Its feelings are hurt, its legitimate activities are restricted, and consequently it "acts up." In the process of explaining the pranks of Big Business and just how it has come to afflict us with them, Mr. Ferguson comes upon the War. For the War we are deeply to blame. We have allowed Big Business - "these modern high-tensioned agencies of socialization" - to drift into the hands of a single class. We have imagined that "low-tensioned" politics could make that class be social. And we have failed. "If these be things which the reader has not seen for himself, he is recommended to look through Mr. Ferguson's glass. He may not believe what he sees, but he will be seeing old things in a new light, which will be to his advantage. - The Advocate of Peace , Volume 78 [1916]
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Add this copy of The Great News to cart. $31.42, good condition, Sold by UHR Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hollis Center, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1915 by Mitchell Kennerley.
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Very Good- Book Rare copy of this early twentieth century work which discusses the rise of a new world power (the United States), the passing of government by proxy, the authority of the engineers, modernizing American politics, the five acts of European tragedy, control of working forces, transplacement of the Centre of Social Credit, the unfitness of the business system for permanent monopoly, the resurgence of woman, and the spirit of the Great Ships. Minor wear, pages age-toned.
Add this copy of The Great News to cart. $75.33, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
