Morris GINSBURG, 1953: The Idea of Progress -- A Revaluation. London: Methuen, 82 pp.

[E]quality and freedom are ideals which can be rationally defended and that progress consists in the movement towards them. [p. 70.]

It Will be urged at this point that the world is now hopelessly divided into two hostile groups differing radically and irreconcilably in their ethical outlook. But is it really the case that the communists and their opponents differ in the conception they have of the ultimate ends of social life? In theory at last it is not true, as is sometimes alleged, that the communists deny the value of individual personality. [p. 71 -- 72.]

At the lowest we can say that there is no ground for suggesting any permanent disharmony between social justice and social efficiency. [p. 74.]

It is only too obvious that [scientific] knowledge can be used for evil purposes and that the situation is made more serious when to the power over nature is added power over th minds of men. ... [Therefore ,t]he moral neutrality or indifference of the sciences leaves the path open to progress or regress. The choice is ours. It remains that our knowledge is not a sufficient, it is a necessary condition of progress. [p. 77.]