[297] All this has been indicated--with, however, too little emphasis on the reconstructive function of intelligence--by Bertrand Russell in _Principles of Social Reconstruction_ (London, 1916); and more popularly by Max Eastman in _Understanding Germany_ (New York, 1916); it has been put very briefly again and again by Professor Dewey,--_e.g._, in an essay on “Progress” in the _International Journal of Ethics_, April, 1916. [298] This is not a defence of mechanism or materialism; it is a plea for a better perspective in philosophy. [299] It would be invidious to name the exceptions which one is glad to remember here; but it is in place to say that the practical arrest of Bertrand Russell is a sign of resuscitation on the part of philosophy,--a sign for which all lovers of philosophy should be grateful. When philosophers are once more feared, philosophy will once more be respected. [300] _American Journal of Sociology_, March, 1905, p. 645. [301] Ross, _Social Control_, New York, 1906, p. 9. [302] _Will to Power_, § 469. [303] Barker, _Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle_, p. 80. [304] Perhaps this million could be reached more surely and economically through direct pamphlet-publication by the Society. [305] Some students--_e.g._, Joseph McCabe, _The Tyranny of Shams_, London, 1916, p. 248--are so impressed with the dangers lying in our vast production of written trash that they favor restricting the circulation of cheap fiction in our public libraries. But what we have to do is not to prohibit the evil but to encourage the good, to give positive stimulus rather than negative prohibition. People hate compulsion, but they grope for guidance. [306] _E.g._, by G. Lowes Dickinson, _Justice and Liberty_, p. 133. [307] Cf. Russell, _Principles of Social Reconstruction_, p. 236: “The supreme principle, both in politics and in private life, should be to promote all that is creative, and so to diminish the impulses and desires that center round possession.” [308] _Reason in Common Sense_, New York, 1911, p. 96. [309] Quoted by Walter Weyl, _The New Democracy_, p. 136. [310] Ross, _Social Control_, New York, 1906, p. 103. * * * * * Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: seee things clearly=> see things clearly {pg 100} whosesale assertions=> wholesale assertions {footnote pg 211} End of Project Gutenberg's Philosophy and The Social Problem, by Will Durant