...as one or another of the instinctive dispositions is predominant in the community's scheme of life " (p. 35). " The grave importance that attaches to it...as now faces the peoples of Christendom " (p. 25). the instinct of workmanship from the stone age to the twentieth century. The slow advance of technology...

...as one or another of the instinctive dispositions is predominant in the community's scheme of life " (p. 35). " The grave importance that attaches to it...as now faces the peoples of Christendom " (p. 25). the instinct of workmanship from the stone age to the twentieth century. The slow advance of technology...

...of institutions and of the habits in which social institutions become intrenched. "History records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...as now faces the peoples of Christendom" (p. 25). Yet hope may be derived from the fact that "changes are going forward constantly and incontinently...

...parental bent — and the resisting force of institutional bonds. 'History,' says Mr. Veblen, 'records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom." " — Quarterly Journal of Economics. PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue...

...parental bent — and the resisting force of institutional bonds. 'History,' says Mr. Veblen, 'records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom.' " — Quarterly Journal of Economics. PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue...

...This is the nature of reform. Veblen reveals this in the tone of the following. But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom, (p. 25) Human nature best expressed itself in the savage mode of culture, and Veblen looked there to show how...

...without substantial retardation. But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances or the triumph of imbecile institutions over life and...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom.* It is against this considered historical pessimism (not untimely in 1914, or in 1965) that Veblen's...

...social and economic problems. This optimism is tempered by Veblen's observation, "But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...a desperately precarious institutional situation" (Thorstein B. Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship [New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1964], p. 25). The...

...The Theory of Economic Progress (1944) (New York: Schocken Books. 1962), pp. x, 176. "History records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...imbecile institutions over life and culture than of people who have . . . saved themselves alive out of a desperately precarious institutional situation,...

...current of life and cultural growth go on, with or without substantial retardation. But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...situation, such, for instance as now faces the peoples of Christendom.53 As is clear from the above, Veblen held that progress or cultural growth will take place...