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BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET          \n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \n Reproducthons may not be made without permslon trom Columbia Unierslty Lbraries.                   \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:            35mmREDUCTION BATIO:      12:/  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:JA  \nINITIALS:                  路  \nDATE FILMED:                  2-25-92  \nTRACKING舞：                                                                                      21521  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nu  \n## AUTOCRACY AND PATERNALISM.VS.DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY\n\nB064  \nBY FREDERICK L.HOFFMAN,LL.D.  \nThird Vice-President and Statistiean,The Prudatial Iasrance Companyof America  \nAn address delivered at the annual meeting of the  \nINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CASUALTY ANDSURETY UNDERWRITERS  \nHeld at Hotel Astor,New York City,December 4,1918  \nAUTOCRACY AND PATERNALISM vs.DEMOCRACY ANDLIBERTY.*  \nBy FREDERICK L.HoFFMAN,LL.D.  \nThird Vice-President and Statistician,The Prudential InsuranceCompany of America.  \nThe end of the World War means the end of an era in which themajor portion of mankind lived under a fatuous illusion,best de-scribed,perhaps,as the irrational coneeption of a purely imaginary\"international mind.\"First and last at best only an intellectualabstraction,like all other vague generalizations,the concept becamemost popular and effective with those in positions of great publicresponsibility—leaders of thought and national policy.The reck-less advocacy of hopeless panaceas of social and political reformsmay truly be said by I914 to have reached the proportions of aserious menace to the perpetuity of our democratie institutions andour fundamental conceptions of personal and political liberty.Farmore dangerous than the obviously destructive policy of anarchismor nihilism is the more subtle and often cleverly disguised propa-ganda in behalf of a plea for the needless enlargement of the sphereof the stateas a rightful prerogative of all government.Practicallyall such arguments in support of radical changes in our long-estab-lished form of government and substantially at variance with thefundamental principles thereof,are in conflict with the Americantheory of the state and constitutional procedure of required alter-ations,best emphasized in the introduction to John RandolphTucker's treatise on the“Constitution of the United States,\"read-ing in part:  \nSe&,1920(  \nPolitical Science should be based upon principles established bythe use of the Inductive Method.When speculative theories yieldto facts,this science will become philosophic,and will have practicalvalue.It is a practical science and not a theory.The relations in-volved are infinite,and the social machinery needed for their regu-lation is too intricate to be constructed upon any other foundationthan experience.  \nThe irresponsible advocate of the experimental method in poli-tics is generally himself without experience in government or busi-ness enterprise.He is so much more dangerous because of the  \n\"An address delivered at the annual meetingof International Associationof Casualty and Surety Underwriters,New York City,December 4.1918.  \ndifficulty on the part of the general public to clearly perceive thatonly such changes are advisable as will unquestionably result ina material improvement in political,social or economic conditions,as the case may be The propagandist overlooks the moral obliga-tion that propositions to radically modify or change governmentalor business practices are justifable only when they makce for a bet-ter,instead of,as is usually the case,merely for a different stateof affairs.Granting that all human experience has its serious limi-tations and that the future policy of the nation as determined bypresent actions must necesarily,in part","cbCaiiP0NYa5Cb8a","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiP0NYa5Cb8a","pdf",1178255,23,"English","# AUTOCRACY AND 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