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Social Science and the
Collectivization of Hubris
JOSEPH J. SPENGLER
Duke University
The university had been able to repulse all of its enemies save those that
its own hubris had created within its ranks.'
The underlying cause of our problem [the dollar crisis]-described by
some as 'the arrogance of power'-remains with us. . . . Our global
involvements must be more realistically proportioned to our re-
sources,2
The most instructive revelation may be how little faith the leaders had
in those they led-a classic case of the arrogance of the powerful.'
Economists have much to be modest about [and] much to be sad about.'
In ancient times the I Ching's counsel to man not to
press beyond his own limitations seems to have been widely sup-
ported. The Greek poet Pindar described unattainable aspirations
as a source of madness;' and Plato warned against giving too
great power to anything or too much authority to the mind lest
'Robert A. Nisbet, The Degradation of the Academic Dogma: The University
in America, 1945-197o (New York, 1971), 241.
Robert Lekachman, Hubris and the Dollar, The New Leader, May 31,
1971, P- 3.
Pentagon Papers: The Secret War, Time, June 28, 1971, p. 16.
4W. R. Allen, in Randall W. Hinshaw, The Economics of International Ad-
justment (Baltimore, 1971), 134.
* Pindar, Nem., XI, 47.
VolumeLXXXVII Numberl March1972
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