I maintain, therefore, that the common sociological method

is quite useless: that of first dissecting abject poverty
or cataloguing prostitution
I maintain, therefore, that the common sociological method
is quite useless: that of first dissecting abject poverty
or cataloguing prostitution. We all dislike abject poverty;
but it might be another business if we began to discuss independent
and dignified poverty. We all disapprove of prostitution;
but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss
the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal.
We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?
I have called this book 'What Is Wrong with the World?'
and the upshot of the title can be easily and clearly stated.
What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.