| Description |
xvii, 426 p. front., ports. 25 cm. |
| Contents |
Adventures in suggestion: The ten "greatest" thinkers; Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin. The ten "greatest" poets; Homer, "David," Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman. One hundred best books for an education.--Adventures in philosophy: The philosophy of Spengler. The philosophy of Keyserling. Bertrand Russell on marriage and morals.--Adventures in literature: In praise of Flaubert. Anatole France. John Cowper Powys.--Adventures in travel: The problem of Palestine. Seen in India. China--dying, or reborn?--Adventures in controversy: Behaviorism and philosophy. Twelve world dates. A letter to the mayor, on being invited to debate with him the failure of democracy. Is modern education a failure? |
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