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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOCIAL WORK: A NEW PROFESSION. Two things the educated man wishes to be sure of in deciding his life-work, ?he wishes to fill the place to which his particular talents are adapted; he desires to touch and affect what is vital in the life of his times. Let us consider first the particular nature of the demand which one's times make upon one. It is a truism that it is much easier to write the history of any past era than of the present. It is in particular much easier to sum up the ethical meaning of a situation in the past than of one which is now in solution. The traditions which are imparted to us in childhood remain, consciously or unconsciously, the standards by which our whole life is likely to be affected, notwithstanding all the later enlightenment that may come to us. Three of the world's greatest geographers were once conversing together when this question arose: If you go to the bottom of your mind, where the most fixed and unalterable conceptions are, what conception do you find there of the world? The reply of all three was, that suggested by the old square Mercator's projection maps in the little text-books which they had studied in school as children. In a real sense these great geographers were, in spite of themselves, still living in a flat world. What is it to-day to be a patriot ? Being a patriot, to one's sub-conscious, if not to one's conscious thought, is being like those pictures of John Hancock and Sam Adams which we found in our earliest historical text-books. The atmosphere of patriotism is that which we inhaled as we listened to others or ourselves declaim the sentiments of the eighteenth century fathers of our country. It is one of the most convincing lessons of history that these very patriots were patriots only through a great summoning of..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217474115 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021747411X |
| Weight | 1.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.92 In |
| List Price | $27.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 412 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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