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THE tendency of the modern school of political thought is to attribute the majority of the great historical events which have attended the various phases of human development to the operation of unseen underlying economic forces. The recognition of this fundamental truth represents a noteworthy advance towards the completer understanding of the factors underlying and determining the evolution of man and of human institutions, but, admitted that economic forces wholly or very largely determine the political evolution of mankind, the question still remains: To what in turn are we to attribute the incessant fluctuations of the ever-urging economic forces? It is not that one consistent economic pressure, incident everywhere and operating in a definite direction, has continually urged mankind towards some undeviat-ing goal; quite the contrary-the economic pressure upon mankind has been fluctuating, variable both in incidence and in direction, and not always advantageous in its immediate outcome.
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By Prof. T. Brailsford Robertson . Reprinted from the University of California Chronicle, vol. xix., No. 1.
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Science as a Vehicle of Education. Nature 100, 495–497 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100495a0
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