Book Reviews : The Public Service and University Education. Edited by JOSEPH E. McLEAN. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1949. Pp. vi, 246. $3.75.)

• Date: 01 December 1950
• Author: Frederick C. Irion
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295000300434
• Published date: 01 December 1950
• Subject Matter: Articles

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his own so that he can solve his city’s problems in a manner considered
best by other cities. A political scientist can use this book to assist him
in keeping a practical approach to his problem of teaching local govern-
ment institutions.
ELLSWORTH E. WEAVER.
University of Utah.
The Public Service and University Education. Edited by JOSEPH E.
McLEAN. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1949. Pp. vi, 246.
$3.75.)
Two world wars ago, Brooks Adams wrote a book entitled The Theory
of Social Revolutions. In it he stated: &dquo;Administration is the capacity of
co-ordinating many, and often conflicting, social energies in a single or-
ganism, so adroitly that they shall operate as a unity. This presupposes
the power of recognizing a series of relations between numerous special
social interests, with all of which no single man can be intimately ac-
quainted. Probably no very highly specialized class can be strong in this
intellectual quality because of the intellectual isolation incident to special-
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ization; and yet administration or generalization is not only the faculty
upon which social stability rests, but is, possibly, the highest faculty of
the human...