In this section Meade discusses positivism, positives were a group of scientific and technocratic advisors who believed that lives could be improved through science and modernization; however, the problem with this kind of thinking was that they believed science was the answer to everything and they failed to see the importance of concepts such as beliefs, culture and religion. The first primary source is an excerpt from the book civilization and barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer from Argentina; he compares different societies and criticizes the gaucho who were considered to be cowboys. In the second primary source, it is a document issued by the Nicaraguan government targeting local agents who help conduct the census; it discusses
