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 AN AUSTRIAN APPRECIATION OF LESTER F. WARD 653

he has shown in his previous work warrants great expectations of this crown of his scientific achievements. At all events, the pessimists in world-philosophy, who are of the opinion that nothing essential can be changed in the social process, are in danger of a serious reverse. The optimists, on the other hand, of the Franz Oppenheimer type, may congratulate themselves. In Lester F. Ward they have from America a powerful reinforcement.

LUDWIG GUMPLOWICZ. GRAZ.