DRAKE, DURANT. Light from Tolstoy on Russia... DEL VECCHIO, GIORGIO. Right and Human Personality in the History DORWARD, ALAN. Some Deductions from the Doctrine of Consequences in Ethics. 25 SCOTT, J. W. Democracy and the Logic of Goodness. 68 SHAFER, ROBERT. Henry Adams.... 43 SHARP, FRANK CHAPMAN. The Problem of a Fair Wage. 372 SNEDDEN, DAVID. Some New Problems in Education for Citizenship... 1 172 16 83 231 349 WRIGHT, H. W. Rational Self-Interest and the Social Adjustment... 394 267 BABBITT, IRVING. Rousseau and Romanticism, by J. H. Tufts.... 101 by Margaret Jourdain.... 105 HAMMOND, J. L. and BarbaRA. The Skilled Laborer, by Margaret LASKI, HAROLD. Authority in the Modern State, by Charles E. Merriam ..... PILLSBURY, W. B. The Psychology of Nationality and Internationality, SHARP, FRANK CHAPMAN. Education for Character, by Ella Lyman Cabot J. H. Tufts.. 459 220 224 338 460 226 106 WRIGHT, HENRY WILKES. Faith Justified by Progress, by E. S. Ames.. 222 Shorter Notices of Recent Books Books Received... .108, 228, 340, 467 .118, 230, 347, 469 JOURNAL OF ETHICS OCTOBER, 1919 SOME NEW PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP.1 DAVID SNEDDEN THE making of good citizens in the broadest sense, that is, of adults who will contribute to the harmony and co-operation needed within the social group, out of plastic childhood with its individualistic and "small group" instincts, has been a task to which societies appear to have addressed themselves since the beginnings of organized human life on earth. Education for citizenship is simply one phase of the complex process of social control. Preparation for citizenship has generally taken place in ways unperceived by the learner, and doubtless often, too, in ways only partially understood by the teacher—as parent, elder, chief, master worker, priest or lawgiver; for it is certain that the customs, dogmas, traditions, institutions and ideals evolved to perpetuate social control have a potency at any given time far beyond that which can be perceived and comprehended by any individual. But the old ways of fitting for citizenship are not sufficient for the modern world. The citizen of a twentieth century democracy has responsibilities that are both greater and different from those borne by his forefathers. It seems very probable, indeed, that the spread of aspirations for democracy, accompanied by general social demands for, 1An address given before the Columbia Institute of Arts and Sciences, January 28, 1919. Vol. XXX.-No. 1 |