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Errata - Page 7
Corrections to the Pre-Publication Edition

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

Page 222 Line 4, delete "disintegrated" insert the words "gave way"
Paragraph 2, line 5, "Lindsay" should read "Lindsey"

Page 223 Footnote 2, line 1, "Lindsay's" and "Lindsay" should read "Lindsey's" and "Lindsey"
line 1, delete "comma" and insert semicolon after "idea;"
line 2, "dependents" should read "defendants"

Page 224 Paragraph 3, end of line 1, insert word "free" after "distributed"
Paragraph 3, line 2, delete word "free" and "comma" after "nation."

Page 225 Paragraph 1, end of line 2, replace "comma" with "period" after the word "too."

Page 226 Paragraph 2, line 4, "race-suicide" should read "race suicide" paragraph 4, line 6, insert "comma" before ", as it"

Page 228 Under heading "The Passing Of The Great Race", paragraph 1, last line, "graditude." should read "gratitude."

Page 229 Footnote 6, add new line of text at end of note as follows: One very influential tome of the 1920s, for instance, was Joseph Widney's two-volume Race Life of the Aryan People. Widley was a founder of the University of Southem California.

Page 234 Indented quote, line 3, "philanthrophies" should read "philanthropies"

Page 235 Under heading " A New Collectivism", between paragraphs 1 and 2, two new paragraphs have been that read: At the same time, or just a bit later, a new biology began to emerge—a molecular vision of life under the direction of the Rockefeller Foundation, a vision in which scientific interventions could and should be used deliberately, by the best people, to control biological and social evolution. With Rockefeller as a principal engine, the shared social view of corporate thinkers was comprehensively imposed, bit by bit, on academic science. Elite universities, with Caltech as leader, became sites for implementation of the Rockefeller project. It was in the words of Lily Kay in The Molecular Vision of Life, "a potent convergence of social agendas and scientists' ambitions."

Eugenic goals played a significant role in conception and design of the new Rockefeller biology, to such a point that open discussion of purposes had eventually to be kept under wraps as a political liability, particularly when the great dictators of Europe appeared to be taking some of their cues from America. Molecular biology promised a politically safer, and even a more certain path to an eventual utopia of social planning by elites, and one now properly "scientific," completely free of the embarrassing candor of eugenic selection.

Page 236 Line 2, new footnote 9, footnote indicator 9 is located after "Croly" and new footnote reads: The new republic we were driving toward, according to Croly, bore little resemblance to either a republic or a democracy. It was to be an apolitical universe, a new utopia of engineers and skilled administrators, hinted at by Bellamy, spun out further by Veblen in The Engineers and the Price System, and The Theory of Business Enterprise. A federal union of worldwide extent was the target, a peculiar kind of union of the sort specified in Cecil Rhodes’ last wills, which established the Rhodes Scholarships as a means to that end. Politics was outdated as a governing device. Whatever appearances of an earlier democratic republic were allowed to survive, administrators would actually rule. A mechanism would have to be created whereby administrators could be taught the new reality discreetly so that continuity and progress could be assured. De Tocqueville's nightmare of an endlessly articulating, self-perpetuating bureaucracy had finally come to life. It was still in its infancy, but every sign pointed to a lusty future.

CHAPTER TWELVE

Page 237 Epigraph, at end of quote, delete [who prefer this variant spelling]

Page 239 Paragraph 3, end of line 5, delete "1,650 percent" and insert the words "many times"
Paragraph 3, line 9, delete "52,000 percent" and insert "125 times"
Page 240 Paragraph 1, line 7, "Scotch-Irish" should read "Scots-Irish"
Paragraph 2, line 4, "Scotch-Irish" should read "Scots-Irish"

Page 241 Footnote 2, line 1, "sixteen" should be "eighteen"
line 2, "St George's" should be "St. George's"
line 3, after "Culver Military," add "Milton Academy,"
line 3, after "St. Marks," add "Woodberry Forest,"
line 3, "three or four others" should read "one or two more"

Page 247 Paragraph 2, line 2, delete "substantial"; and insert word "still" after "Anglo-Saxons"

Page 248 Indented quote, line 1, "population" should read "populations"
Last paragraph under heading "Unpopular Government", second line up from bottom, insert a period after "even beyond." In the next sentence delete ",which", so it reads "Scientific racism determined"

Page 249 Under heading "The Machine Gun Builds Hotchkiss"
paragraph 1, 1ine 6, after "American visit" insert words "in 1882"

Page 250 Paragraph 1, line 2, "The" should read "the"
Paragraph 4, line 11, "Social" should read "social"

Page 251 Under heading "The General Education Board And Friends",
paragraph 1, line 1, "though" should read "through"
Footnote 5, next to last line,"owners" should read "ownership"

Page 255 Line 1, "but before" should read "but not before"
Second indented quote, line 4, "italics" deleted in word "Interlock"

Page 257 End of paragraph 1 should read "Pier warned of:"

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Page 260 Line 1, "stock" should be "field"

Page 261 Under heading "Behaviorists", paragraph 1, line 1, delete the word "best"
Paragraph 1, line 2, delete the words "during the 1920s"
Paragraph 1, line 3, delete whole sentence beginning with "Watson" and ending with "history ." New sentence should read: Watson's "Behaviorist Manifesto" (1913) promoted a then novel utilitarian psychology whose "theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior."
Paragraph 1, line 9, delete word "present"
Paragraph 2, line 2, "which gives them the advantage" now reads as "This gives an advantage"
Paragraph 2, line 4, delete word "flexibly"
Paragraph 2, line 6, delete word "correctly"

Page 263 Indent line under first indented quote, beginning with "Are there"
Paragraph 1, line 4 , after indented quote delete "paper" and insert "ink"
line 5, "Fred" should read "John"
Paragraph 3, line 3, delete complete sentence starting with "So Did Marshall" and replace with following text: Taylorism sought to manage by the control of physical movements and environments, but the behaviorists wanted more certainty than that, they wanted control of the inner life, too.

Page 265 Footnote 1, paragraph 1, end of line 5, delete word "recent"
last line, delete "has" and insert "had"

Page 266 Under heading "Emptiness: The Master Theory"
Paragraph 1, line 3, insert word "of'" after "evidence"
Paragraph 2, line 3, delete "comma" after "emptiness" and insert after "and,"
Paragraph 3, line 2, first word "mind" should read "Mind"
Footnote 3, line 3, delete "reform" and insert "problem of reforming"

Page 267 Paragraph 3, last line, "ultimate purpose" should be "Ultimate Purpose"

Page 269 Lines 3 and 4 should read: in the face of mountainous evidence that interruptions and delays caused by such assessments create formidable obstacles to learning—and for many derail the possibility entirely.

Page 270 Indent first line under first indented quote beginning with "Thus is the"

Page 271 Under heading "Dr. Watson Presumes"
Paragraph 1, line 1, "Leapfrogging several centuries," should read "Leapfrogging 163 years,"

Page 272 Paragraph 1, line 1, "a fast buck adman" should read "a fast-buck huckster"
Paragraph 3, line 4, delete "quotation marks" from "we must recognize"
Paragraph 4, line 8, delete word "is" after "instruction"
Paragraph 4, line 9, insert word "the" before "joker"
Paragraph 4, at end of paragraph add the following sentence: Here is the very model for duplicitous pedagogy.
Paragraph 3, line 1, "Five years" should read "Two years"

Page 278 Paragraph 2, line 2, "John" should read "Johns"

Page 280 Paragraph 3, line 2, "Le Mettrie," should read "de La Mettrie,"

Page 281 Paragraph 1, line 1, "intellectual's " should read "intellectuals "

Page 283 Paragraph 1 , line 1, delete word " great"
Paragraph 1, line 2, "Mental Health." should read "Mental Health (NIMH)."

Page 284 Paragraph 4, line 1, "In 1962, a NIMH-sponsored " should read "In 1962, the NIMH-sponsored"

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