Ward, Lester Frank
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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WARD, LESTER FRANK 1841 1913, American sociologist and paleontologist, b. Joliet, Ill. Largely self...Brown. One of the first and most important of American sociologists, Ward developed a theory of planned progress called telesis...theories and those of his contemporary, William Graham Sumner, represent two main trends in 19th-century American...