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Degradation of American Psychology
Stolberg, Benjamin | October 15, 1930 issue

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The American philosophy, characteristic of the era of institutionalized and impersonal big business, is pragmatism. Pragmatism is as characteristic of contemporary America as the decadent empiricism. The first philosophical sprouting of pragmatism appeared long before the period of which it is now the enlightened alibi. It began shyly in the days of second industrial revolution, when the foundations of industrial empire were being laid by the great robber barons of the closing third of the last century, when captains of industry were captains of industry, and not our present conference hounds of institutionalized monopolies, those ant hills of yes-men.

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PHILOSOPHY, American; INDUSTRIAL revolution; EMPIRICISM; PRAGMATISM; INDUSTRIES; UNITED States
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