[70]. Compare W. I. King, Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, chap. IX.
[71]. In this connection the reader will, no doubt, recall the work of Professor Veblen along this line.
[72]. Perhaps I may be allowed to refer in this connection to the more extended, though inadequate, treatment of classes in my Social Organization.
[73]. For a very strong statement by a conservative economist of the power of class over opportunities and personal values, I may refer to the treatment of the subject by Professor Seager in his Introduction to Economics, § 138. Compare ante, Chapter VIII.
[74]. Professor A. S. Johnson in a Phi Beta Kappa address has vigorously presented this line of thought. He holds that: “The ultimate need of the new industrialism ... is ... artists and poets who shall translate society and social man into terms of values worth serving.”
[75]. The most satisfactory account I know of the stages of synthesis in the development of intelligence, from the simplest assimilation of stimulus and consequence—as when a burnt child dreads the fire—to the most complex purposive action—as in the development and application of science—is found in L. T. Hobhouse’s Mind in Evolution, chaps. V-XIV.
[76]. Physics and Politics, 214.
[77]. Thoughts About Art, 255.
[78]. Societal Evolution, 63.
[79]. Lanier, To Richard Wagner.