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degree of success, long before they had an approximate explana- tion of the propagation of disease. We need not be less efficient for being intelligent about our limitations. There is no knowl- edge of social relations that can furnish adequate major premises for wholesale dogmas about social programs. There is insight into the facts of human association sufficient to show the way toward more insight, and toward more intelligent action. It is honest, and therefore socially the best policy, to represent soci- ology as it is, not as its more selfish exponents would like to have their public imagine that it is.

Albion W. Small. The University of Chicago.

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