Thorstein Veblen
Review author of: 'Social Facts and Forces'. By WASHINGTON GLADDEN.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. 12mo. pp. 156.
Review author of: 'Inequality and Progress'. By GEORGE HARRIS.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1897. 12mo. pp. 237.
The Journal of Political Economy, vol. 6, No. 2 (Mar., 1898), pp. 283-284.
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Mr. Gladden's book is a collection of lectures delivered in Steinway Hall, 
Chicago, as the "Ryder Lectures," and later before the [284] students of Iowa 
College at Grinnell, Iowa. The social facts and forces treated are presented 
under the following subjects: The Factory, The Labor Union, The Corporation, The 
Railway, The Church. The author has attempted to set forth the various social 
forces at work, and to show the results and social dangers of their operation. 
His treatment is thoughtful and dispassionate, the style that of the popular 
lecturer.
Mr. Harris criticises the prevailing notion that progress consists chiefly in an 
approach to political, economic, social, and intellectual equality. As the title 
signifies, he considers inequality a precondition of progress. He contends that 
only in large groupings can any equality be said to exist, and that physical, 
intellectual, and economic advance consists in the successful struggle which the 
better wage against the worse. He finds a growing recognition of the inequality 
of individuals in various fields of activity. Only by proper combination of the 
superior with the inferior can that true unity be attained, in which each one 
can reach his best development. The book contains little that is new. The 
printer is to be congratulated on the workmanship of the volume.