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DIVISIONBIBLIOGBAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nOBIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permsslon trom Columbia University Libraries.                  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \n## TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:            5mm  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA(IIA)  \nIIB  \nREDUCTION BATIO:            \nDATE FILMED:                    517 INITIALS:         TLM  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                     29323  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n## SOCIAL PROGRESS\n\nBy  \nA.WAKEFIELD SLATEN,Ph.D.  \n308Z132  \nCopyright,I926  \nby A.WAKEFIELD SLATEN  \nAll rights reserved  \nAddress Delivered  \nSwnday,October I7,I926  \nPrice 10 Cents  \n15 Cents Postpaid  \nPublished byTHE LAYMEN'S LEAGUE揶ent多iàe nitarian (hurrh550 Cathedral ParkwayNew York City  \n3HVC IEbl'S  \nSOCIAL PROGRESS  \nThe relationship of geometry to sociology may notbe very obvious,but let us begin with a bit ofgeometry,for geometry is said to be a great clearerof the reasoning process.  \nmay  \nProgress may be conceived of as the moving of apoint upon a line toward a fixed point upon that line.Or progress may be thought of as the moving of apoint upon the circumference of a circle toward afixed point upon that circumference.Or again,progress may be regarded as the moving of a pointin pursuit of a point which is itself moving,the pathof the points making any series of regular or irregu-lar loops and flourishes.There are those who thinkof social progress as the slow but continuous move-ment toward a fixed point of social perfection.Theyregard the process of evolution as having directionand a fixed goal.Others hold to a theory of cycles,what Nietzsche called the doctrine of recurrence.According to this opinion,humanity travels in a cir-cle,like a man lost in the woods,and comes alwaysround to the same point again.Still another type ofmind would have us believe that progress does notinvolve advancement toward a fixed point,but thepursuit of a flying goal.  \nThere are some who seriously maintain that thewords Social Progress are a symbol for somethingthat does not exist.Such,for instance,is the opin-ion of the eminent lawyer and rigorous thinker,Clarence Darrow.He debated with Prof.Frederick  \nStarr,of the University of Chicago,upon the ques-tion,\"Is the Human Race Getting Anywhere?\"Starrsaying \"Yes,\"Darrow,\"No.\"Darrow's concludingwords were:  \n\"It is the nature of life to change,move,out and in,and up and down,forward and backward,restless,for-ever,with no beginning and no end;a ship on the sea,tossed by every wave and by every wind;a ship headedfor no port and no harbor,with no rudder,no compass,no pilot;simply drifting for a time,then lost in thewaves.This is life,and I submit it is all that sciencecan tell us about life.\"  \nThere are facts that seem to give support to Mr.Darrow's view.Nature is ruthless,and destroys thatwhich it has taken ages to produce.Civilizations dorise,flourish,decay,and perish.Human nature doesoccasionally show itself as having a veneer of cul-ture,with solid savagery underneath.Man is acreature controlled by inexorable cosmic forces,against which he may struggle as he pleases,but invain.E-volution does readily become de-volution.What chance,then,is there for social progress?  \nA fuller assembling of facts,however,sometimesupsets mistaken inferences and confounds the mostconvincing theories.To return a moment to geom-ery,it is rational to argue that a point moving upona line toward a fixed point will at a certain instanthave traveled half the distance.Later it will reachthe half mark of the remaining half of the distance.Then it will halve that.And it will go on halvingthe distance forever,approaching infinitely close toits destination,but never reaching itBy this methodof convincing reasoning we could persuade ","cbCaijdF0PTOJYy7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijdF0PTOJYy7","pdf",511193,12,"English","# Social progress\n## Programmatic opening and geometric analogy\n## Competing theories of progress\n## Skepticism and the question of existence\n## Reframing progress through meaning\n## Differentiating progress from change, speed, and age","[{\"question\":\"What does the text use as an analogy for thinking about social progress?\",\"answer\":\"It compares social progress to a point moving along a line or circle toward fixed or moving points, borrowing the logic of geometry to frame the debate about direction and goals.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author address the idea that society may not progress?\",\"answer\":\"The argument contrasts views that deny progress with counter-considerations, including a discussion of how facts can unsettle confident theories and a focus on a prior question: what progress would actually be.\"},{\"question\":\"Which distinctions does the text make to clarify what 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