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by HADLEY CANTRIL
Using a brilliantly original technique of psychological exploration, this simply stated
book proposes a new way of looking at mankind's social structure. Employing what
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how people everywhere feel about their lives and nations, their pasts, presents,
and futures.
Their study embraces nearly a third of all the people on earth-citizens of both
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how it is possible to avoid many errors in the exercise of national policy, and to em–
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His report deals with the real world. Its inlplications embrace politics, government,
history, social science, economics, cultural anthropology, and a dozen other fields.
Charts, diagrams, 450 pages, $10.00
This volume is one of a group of major works published ,in celebration of the
two hundredth anniversary of the founding of Rutgers, The State University.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS,
New Brunswick, New Jer&ey
