They addressed themselves more to the problem of discontent than they did to how to be content. In each case, the recognition of discontent attempted to channel these impulses into an acceptance of corporate solutions. When Filene spoke of teaching people “how to think” and separated this from any of the “class” traditions of thinking, he was confronting a problem broader than the particular historical spectre of bolshevism. He was confronting the problem of people looking amongst themselves for solutions to social ills.
