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For increased knowledge of human nature would directly and in unpredictable ways modify the workings of human nature, and lead to the need of new methods of regulation, and so on without end.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “For increased knowledge of human nature would directly and in unpredictable ways modify the workings of human nature…”
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Dewey argues that increased knowledge of human nature leads to evolving methods of regulation.
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