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and ideal, from complication and modification. The other is the
numerical strength of the fact.
As
the first criterion is used in the
Report it has the effect, ironic in a work that is so clearly directed to
democratic values, of removing the human subject from its human
implications.
As
the second criterion is used in the Report it has
the effect, equally ironic in a democratic and instrumental docu_!llent,
of preventing the consideration of the consequences of certain forms
of human conduct. The two criteria taken together have the effect
of suggesting a most ineffectual standard of social behavior-that is,
social behavior as it exists. Yet this is contradicted at any number
of points and the Report is quite willing to judge among behaviors
by various manipulations of its factual criteria. It is impossible to
say of the Report that it does not bring light, and necessary to say
of it that it spreads confusion.
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