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Modest Code
Levi, Albert William | July 28, 1956 issue

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In this article, the author critically examines the book "The Ethics of Compromise and the Art of Containment," by T.V. Smith. In this little book Smith addresses problems of social and political living at that interesting intermediate level where it is impossible to distinguish the higher morality from the highest prudence. In an age driven further and further by theologians and politicians alike toward a suicidal rigidity, there is refreshment to be found in a position which asks only magnanimity toward diverse meanings, a moderate amount of ideological generosity and the private self-reliance which resists all imperialisms of the public spirit.

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ETHICS of Compromise & the Art of Containment, The (Book); SMITH, T. V.; POLITICAL science; POLITICAL doctrines; IMPERIALISM; POLITICIANS
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