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19. Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949). 20. Jnis L. Claude, Jr., Power and International Relations (NY: Random House, 1962). 21. Samit and Tanenhaus note that the American Political Science Association was formed not just to promote independent scholarship, but also to "educate for democratic [i.e., liberal] citizenship." The Development of American Political Science, op. cit., p. 87. Ths fact was also noted in the dissenting statement of the Caucus for a New Political Science. They note that the efforts of the APSA to "make democracy work" and to "promote good citizenship . . . dampen criticism of [American] institutions and practices." P. S., I, No. 1, Winter 1968, pp. 38-40. 22. J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study. Reprinted in paperback by University of Michigan Press, 1965. 23. For a discussion of "dependency" see in particular Theotonio Dos Sontos, "The Structure of Dependence," American Economic Review, XL, No. 2, May 1970, pp. 231-236. Also see Suzanne Bodenheimer, "Dependency and Imperialism ," NACLA Newsletter, IV, No. 3, pp. 18-27 and Antonio Murge, "Dependency: A Latin American View," NACLA Newsletter, IV, No. 10, pp. 1-13. 24. Hans Kohn, Nationalism: Its Meaning and History (Princeton , N. J.: Anvil Original for Van Nostrand, revised edition, 1965). 25. Eli Kedourie, Nationalism (London: Hutchinson, 3rd edition, 1966). This book strongly influenced Pierre Elliott Trudeau's ideas on nationalism. 26. Ibid., p. 9. Commentary: Toward the totalitarian university PETER R. HUNT Being a true modernist these days requires more than devotion to Industrialism and its incestuous twin, Progress. It involves, at a time of crisis in industrial materialism, a reaffirmation of faith in science and technology as the main sources of sweetness and light, a thorough-going evolutionism in which the emphasis is on adaptation to change induced by a so-called 'knowledge explosion,' and an associated naive anxiety to prepare for a world predicted by the new liberal prophets, the 'futurologists.' Thus, what more thoughtful critics see as part of the modern disease, the central place given to empiricism in contemporary thought and the dominance of technology in shaping life-patterns beJournal of Canadian Studies 27. A few might be aware of the statement by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard: "We have not found that the theories of political philosophers have helped us to understand the societies we have studied and we consider them of little scientific value; for their conclusions are seldom formulated in terms of observed behaviour or capable of being tested by this criterion. Political philosophy has chiefly concerned itself with how men ought to live and what form of government they ought to have, rather than with what are their political habits and institutions." African Political Systems (London: Oxford University Press, 1940. Paperback edition, 1970), p. 4. 28. Alfred Zimmern, ed., University Teaching of International Relations. A record of the eleventh session of the International Studies Conference, Prague, 1938 (Paris: International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, League of Nations, 1939). 29. Ibid., p. 9. 30. Ibid., p. 23. 31. Ibid., p. 33. 32. Ibid., p. 39. 33. W. E. C. Harrison, "University Teaching of International Relations in Canada," Ibid., pp. 95-114. 34. From the preface by Lord Eustace Percy to S. H. Bailey, International Studies in Great Britain (London: Oxford, 1933). 35. A discussion of the meeting can be found in "Economic Politics or Political Economy," Andre Gunder Frank, Latin American: Underdevelopment or Revolution (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1969), pp. 108-124. comes, in a determinist v1s1on, an inevitable part of the cure. In this evolutionist vision the accent is on amelioration of conditions created by the machine-age rather than on radical questioning of the assumptions which form its foundation. The simple-minded religion of Progress has now entered a new phase, one in which liberal naivete blends uncannily with a gnostic fervour and pluralist manipulation that can transform even a critique of the status-qua into grist for the grinding mills (as satanic as ever, though arrayed as angels of light) of the technocracy . Another way of looking at this trend is to link it with the well-known but never-to-beforgotten capacity of industrialism to adjust. The system built on...