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IN an address at Southampton, Long Island, on September 1 on “Our United States in this Backward Moving World”, Dr. N. Murray Butler asserted that the human race is witnessing the greatest and most far-reaching revolution which history records. This revolution is primarily the outgrowth of economic problems and ambitions, and he urged that the substitution of information for knowledge as a result of the influence of the Press and the radio has made it of vital importance to look beneath the surface of things. The arrest at the beginning of this century of progress towards a prosperous and contented and peaceful world, organized for the preservation and protection of law and order, was due to the incompetence and failure of the democracies, especially France, Great Britain and the United States, to understand the new economic and political forces at work and to co-operate for their control and direction in a manner which would preserve and protect the democratic system of economic, social and political order, as well as the free institutions built upon that order.
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The American Contribution to a New Order. Nature 147, 113 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147113b0
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