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Irving Babbitt

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Irving Babbitt

Society

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Since society needs some form of order to function, people had no choice but to adopt military-style rules when no other systems of control were available. This suggests that the strict, organized discipline found in the military became the default way to maintain social stability.

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