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Pol'al, soc, & ED's in Mexico since the 1910 Mexican revolution are traced. It is noted that the removal from positions of pol'al control of the traditional pillars of Mexican society produced an apparent disintegration of all the forces of order. When order was restored, it was in the form of an official Party. The reintegration into pol of groups & interests dispossessed after 1910 has occurred either within the Party or with the Party's blessings. Although the Party lacks a fixed ideology & is clearly oriented toward the kind of soc adjustments appropriate for an industr'ized society which is led by a Me, it must, nonetheless, always be sensitive to the requirements for its internal integrity. For this reason, all the major interests in Mexico now enjoy a settled, routine machinery through which to advance their claims. The result has been a transition from violence & pol'al disintegration to a high-consensus pol with a stable & settled rate of recruitment of new elements to the pol'al system. This manifest consensus among major interests classifies Mexican society as modern, but it does not deliver its pol'al leadership from the unknown perils of rapid soc & econ change. The hazards of modernization & residues from a traditional agrarian society which is not yet fully assimilated into the new pol'al system will be a continued source of potential discontent. Nor does the new consensus represent an acceptance of the classical norms of democracy. Democracy requires some formal org of effective opposition groups, notably lacking in Mexican pol. Mexicans have now a system permitting a margin of satisfaction to all major interests, & until replaced by something else very much like it, the official Party will continue to place orderly limits on competitive pol'al action. Modified Author's Summary.

We are asked to envisage William James as an intellectual, playing a role in the modern world. The modern regions of today's world owe their distinctive character to democracy, sci & industry. In such regions, the classical intellectual swordmen exercising their skills with words, segregated from workmen & tradesmen-found themselves released from the ivory tower into the hurly-burly of pol'al economy, journalism, applied psychol, etc. Intellectual & intelligent are no longer synonymous. The first continues to connote the superiorities of the authoritarian wordman in the platonic tradition. The second tends to connote the wordman whose res is action-res in an open world, & not appraised by first principles. Thus the initial ambiguity of the intellectual's role is clarified. In this sense, William James & his 'will-to-believe' are a model of the modern intellectual: thinking not deductively, but inductively; committing himself not only to the how of the sci'ific enterprise, but to its whats & what-fors; an individualist judging all isms by their consequences to other individualities in a world where rationality must be incidental, not central. IPSA.