Robert Staughton Lynd Quote

It is characteristic of mankind to make as little adjustment as possible in customary ways in the face of new conditions; the process of social change is epitomized in the fact that the first Packard car body delivered to the manufacturer had a whipstock on the dashboard.


Middletown (1929), pt. VI, ch. 29


It is characteristic of mankind to make as little adjustment as possible in customary ways in the face of new conditions; the process of social...

It is characteristic of mankind to make as little adjustment as possible in customary ways in the face of new conditions; the process of social...

It is characteristic of mankind to make as little adjustment as possible in customary ways in the face of new conditions; the process of social...

It is characteristic of mankind to make as little adjustment as possible in customary ways in the face of new conditions; the process of social...