Fires of Prejudice
CROSSWAITH, FRANK R.
The Profit MOTIVE A K«winr by JOWJAM THOMAS fj/1? PROFIT MOTIVE AND HOW-IT WORKS. A Review of : th* Pr§M Motive; Is it IndUpemtJklMto Infantry? By Harry F. Ward. FubUthtd by the...
...Harry f. Ward vigorously challenges...
...His closely knit argument falls into three divisions...
...He dbaUenget it on the oasis of the appeal to fact...
...Professor Ward does not quote Shaw but one can imagine that ha would reply that at any rata our - lunacy is curable...
...Third, an answer to the affirmation that eflk.ent or not, it is at any rate indispensable, given human nature as .ye know it, T* quote isolated sentences from Br...
...Release from the inhibitions and repressions of dogma coma* not in agnosticism but through scientific faith, that is grounded in reason and developed in experiment, that proves itself in ,the laboratory of its works...
...10 eenU fr copy "The Front Motive ins the whoc Hit moves the warlH...
...This is tbo condition of creative activity arid" the essence of it in this matter of profit motivation i* the belief that it is better to fail trying to live intelligently and in fellowship as developing human beings than to stagnate comfortably in the muck or to rend each other over the booty of the earth like n pack ofhungry wolves," To read this pamphlet is not a task for idle moments or for woolgathering minds, but it is a stimulus to all whoeOtre not afraid to think and to act tor the discovery of truth and its application to tho difficult business of living together...
...So the f%M officer of » national religious ^rganiution recently declared...
...He writ**: "The pursuit of profit in the form of advantage over others is no more a necessary activity of human beings than head hunting or cannibalism...
...G. B. Shaw once said: "If the other planets are inhabited, the earth must be their lunatic asylum...
...Ward's cogent and compact Simphlet would be an injustice to s argument which does not rest upon mere assertion, but upon close and keen observation of the human scana and the results of our present system of production for profit...
...Ward points out that already in the work of the cooperative* and in various forms of public ownership we have illustrations of successful production not based on .* desire for individual profit...
...The Profit MOTIVE A K«winr by JOWJAM THOMAS fj/1...
...But to a blind faith in the efficiency or at any rate the indispensability of the profit motive, Dr...
...Its elimination is merely a question of finding other ways to meet economic needs and Of * putting social approval upon them...
...This ttjitjf in general in modern -society, and it i* this belief which Dr...
...There ere -in-other words - encouraging signs in our present social life...
...Ward opposes no simple panacea, no sure cure...
...He insists on the necessity of a creative activity of the will...
...The author contents himself with no mere negative argument but has positive beliefs and hopes that mankind is capable of a better social order...
...i JX a" definition of profit and an analysis of the profit motive as a social force, becond, an answer to the question, "is the profit motive efficient...
...FubUthtd by the League ftr Indsutrittl \Qetnoeracy, 10 jfifttk Aweme, New York City...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 45
