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Improvident Civilization: An Address by Vice President Richard T. Colburn, Chairman of Section I, Before the Section of Social and Economic Science, ... Meeting, August, 1897 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Colburn, Richard T.

 
9780483464865: Improvident Civilization: An Address by Vice President Richard T. Colburn, Chairman of Section I, Before the Section of Social and Economic Science, ... Meeting, August, 1897 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Improvident Civilization: An Address by Vice President Richard T. Colburn, Chairman of Section I, Before the Section of Social and Economic Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Detroit Meeting, August, 1897

A plea for the application of scientific methods to the amelioration of socio-economic defects and disorders.

The responsibility you have seen fit to place upon me, I will now ask y ou to share with me.

The controversy in respect to a bimetallic money standard, and the other as to the limits of safety for representative or currency money, are certain to be fully worked over, by the powerful vested interests concerned, in Reports of Commissions, and printed vol umes. I devote a minute or two to explaining that they are but parts of a far greater question of Metrology; one also requiring, for its elucidation, a more exact knowledge of the laws of thought than we at present command.

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