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'''David Goodman Croly''' was the father of the [[Progressivism|progressive]] writer [[Herbert Croly]], co-founder of [[The New Republic]] magazine. | '''David Goodman Croly''' was the father of the [[Progressivism|progressive]] writer [[Herbert Croly]], co-founder of [[The New Republic]] magazine. | ||
| − | David Croly was a devoted [[Auguste Comte|Comtist]], who attempted to popularize the concepts of [[Positivism]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLr_AwAAQBAJ|last1=Levy|first1=David|title=Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive|date=2014|publisher=[[Princeton University]] Press|location=New Jersey|isbn=978-0691612690|pages=22-24}}</ref>. | + | David Croly was a devoted [[Auguste Comte|Comtist]], who attempted to popularize the concepts of [[Positivism]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLr_AwAAQBAJ|last1=Levy|first1=David|title=Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive|date=2014|publisher=[[Princeton University]] Press|location=New Jersey|isbn=978-0691612690|pages=22-24}}</ref>. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet ''Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro'', which turned out to be a hoax<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kadish |first1=Philip |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/opinion/kadish-lincoln-hoax/ |title=The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln |work=[[CNN]] |date=February 18, 2014 }}</ref>. |
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| + | *[[Miscegenation]] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=JF5kKM29EVYC A positivist primer: being a series of familiar conversations on the religion of humanity], by David Goodman Croly | *[https://books.google.com/books?id=JF5kKM29EVYC A positivist primer: being a series of familiar conversations on the religion of humanity], by David Goodman Croly | ||
| + | *[https://archive.org/details/miscegenationthe00crol Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro], on [[archive.org]] | ||
Revision as of 19:48, July 2, 2015
David Goodman Croly was the father of the progressive writer Herbert Croly, co-founder of The New Republic magazine.
David Croly was a devoted Comtist, who attempted to popularize the concepts of Positivism[1]. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, which turned out to be a hoax[2].
See Also
References
- ↑ (2014) Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 22-24. ISBN 978-0691612690.
- ↑ "The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln", CNN, February 18, 2014.