The Roads Must Roll

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Human interdependence increased in mechanized world, sufficiently to tempt Functionalists among those running the roads to attempt to seize political power. See for a positive view of "Old Dr. Pavlov" and a very negative view of users of "glib, mechanistic pseudopsychology" who "blindly and unscientifically dogmatized about the meaning of his [Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's] important, but strictly limited, experiments" (Healy and McComas, Adventures 572-3).

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