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THE MIND IN THE MAKING The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform By JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON Author of"PETRARCH, THE FIRST MODERN SCHOLAR" "MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN TIMES" "THE NEW HISTORY", ETC.
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Title: The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform Author: James Harvey Robinson Release Date: May, 2005 [EBook #8077] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on June 12, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English
CONTENTS
I PREFACE 1. ON THEPURPOSEOFTHIS VOLUME 2. THREEDISAPPOINTED METHODS OFREFORM II 3. ON VARIOUS KINDS OFTHINKING 4. RATIONALIZING 5.HOWCREATIVETHOUGHTTRANSFORMSTHEWORLD III 6. OUR ANIMAL HERITAGE. THENATUREOFCIVILIZATION 7. OUR SAVAGEMIND IV 8. BEGINNINGOFCRITICAL THINKING 9. INFLUENCEOFPLATO AND ARISTOTLE V 10. ORIGIN OFMEDIAEVAL CIVILIZATION 11. OUR MEDIAEVAL INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE
VI 12. THESCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 13. HOW SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGEHAS THECONDITIONS OFLIFE VII 14. "THESICKNESS OFAN ACQUISITIVESOCIETY" 15. THEPHILOSOPHYOFSAFETYAND SANITY VIII 16. SOMEREFLECTIONS ON THEPHILOSOPHYOFREPRESSION 17. WHAT OFIT? APPENDIX
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PREFACE
This is an essay—not a treatise—on the most important of all matters of human concern. Although it has cost its author a great deal more thought and labor than will be apparent, it falls, in his estimation, far below the demands of its implacably urgent theme. Each page could readily be expanded into a volume. It suggests but the beginning of the beginning now being made to raise men's thinking onto a plain which may perhaps enable them to fend off or reduce some of the dangers which lurk on every hand.