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The working class, largely tradition-directed in the late 19th century, has passed into the inner-directed phase, and the middle class, whose 19th century mode was inner-direction, is now split.

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Where tradition-direction puts him on a well-worn path, inner-direction gives him a gyroscope by which, in all situations, he is expected to find the way toward his goal.

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The Taft-wing philosophy most matches a combination of "tradition-direction" and "inner-direction."

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They cannot return to inner-direction because the U.S. cannot return to the days when technology and the population situation made inner-direction appropriate.

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If the reader recoils from the other-directed man and cannot go back to inner-direction, where can he turn in search of morality and freedom in personal life or in politics?

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