The Williamstown Institute of Politics

Abstract

The rest of the program provided a consideration of large ideas and basic facts combined with present-day policies and current events. The approaching presidential election increased the interest in the questions of political psychology and method, in the farm problem, in the Nicaraguan question, and in the Kellogg multilateral treaties. At the same time, the general subject of economic imperialism, and the clash or accommodation of widely different civilizations in Latin America, Asia Minor, Africa, and the Far East, came up for extensive discussion. Under the leadership of Professor Graham Wallas, of the London School of Economics, a round table was conducted on "Methods of Social Direction," supplemented by three lectures on the same subject. In these Professor Wallas emphasized the "new social dimensions" produced by modern science and industry, and the necessity of bringing under the deliberate control of human reason the social problems hitherto left to chance. He urged the abandonment of eighteenth-century notions of natural right and divine providence, and the development of trust on the part of the voter toward his representative, coupled with a sense of responsibility by the latter and his