City Values

2015-08-04 • 46 sayfa • EN

Yazan C. Linn Seiler

Excerpt from City Values: An Analysis of the Social Status and Possibilities of American City Life Rapid transition is the spirit of the present age. All about are evidences of the certain decay of dogma and convention - in science, religion, politics, and business. No longer does the old order please: no longer can the ancient superstitions hold the mind and heart. In contrast, we find a more thorough and intelligent inventory-taking of the social stock, a more rigorous and satisfactory disposal of an obsolete and worn-out civilization. The narrow emphasis on creed is giving way to a broader and more pragmatic concept of ethical life. In the business world there is an unrest that denotes a keener insight into industrial values and a better appreciation of large national issues. We feel stirrings of new life in those parts of the body social that we thought dead or sleeping. Fresh incentives revitalize old institutions. New associations form for new needs and works. The younger generation is playing an increasing part in this movement, not only in the furnishing of raw material for a more electric race, but also in the active impetus imparted to the older generation by its insistent demands for a more efficient and satisfying life. To an increasing degree are we becoming more intensely alive - physically, intellectually, and socially. And the tendency is in the direction of a collective appreciation of the sacrifices and pleasures of life - of those things that spell comfort, culture, and citizenship for the community as a whole. The most interesting phase of this epoch is the undeniable and insatiable desire to "know things as they really exist." Sex psychology and sex hygiene are rapidly becoming common property as topics of serious conversation and thought. We are finding out why our cities are corrupt, and why vice, crime, and adulterated foods exist. The magazines and newspapers, quick to give the public what it wants, open their columns as forums of discussion on live contemporary topics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.