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Essentially, Russell's Utopia is a strongly determinist Garden of Eden where knowledge is virtue and no one has enough free will to choose to do evil. Russell is not unaware of the serpents of danger in the world, but he offers to charm them with never-never tunes that have become more conventional than convincing: 1) world government; 2) world prosperity 3) worldwide birth control; 4) more individual initiative and decentralization of economic and political power...
...Economic Determinist. In Cleveland, Louis Masenda was excused from jury duty when he assured the judge that he was "opposed to capital punishment for the poor, but not for the rich" and would decide about the people in between "on a class basis...
...like the American bald eagle, has made historical scholarship a springboard to a life of heady and exhilarating controversy. The Republic is the latest round of the argument. It will also go a long way to end the notion that, as a historian, Charles A. Beard is an economic determinist and nothing else...
...first consider what are the implications of the determinist view. If our acts depend entirely on our present circumstances and character, and our characters on past circumstances and the circumstances of our parents, it is evident that all things are perfectly determined. For the past cannot be changed, and as the future flows out of the past by a necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from...