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i \1 Angel Family Animal Fate Aristocracy Form Art God Astronomy Good and Evil Beauty Government Being Habit Cause Happiness Chance History Change Honor Citizen Hypothesis Constitution Idea Courage Immortality Custom and Convention Induction Definition Infinity Democracy Judgment Desire Justice Dialectic Knowledge Duty Labor Education Language Element Law Emotion Liberty Eternity Life and Death Evolution Logic Experience Love T':>W-•l^ M [ffiS!wi2Rl The Great Ideas Man ^I^^^^^^^B^ Reasoning 1^^| ^| Mathematics ^^^^^^K Relation Matter ^^^^Hf Religion Mechanics Revolution Medicine Rhetoric Memory and Imagination Same and Other Metaphysics Science Mind Sense Monarchy Sign and Symbol Nature Sin Necessity and Contingency Slavery OHgarchy Soul One and Many Space Opinion State Opposition Temperance Philosophy Theology Physics Time Pleasure and Pain Truth Poetry Tyranny Principle Universal and Particular Progress Virtue and Vice Prophecy War and Peace Prudence Wealth Punishment Will Quality Wisdom Quantity World "Politics in an Oyster House"; oil painting by Richard Caton Woodville, 1848 THE GREAT IDEAS TODAY 1968 WILLIAM BENTON Publisher ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, INC. Chicago London Toronto Geneva Sydney Tokyo Manila ' • • • • • © 1968 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Copyright under International Copyright Union All rights reserved under Pan American and Universal Copyright Conventions by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the U.S.A. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 61-65561 The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis, copyright 1944 by The Macmillan Company, is reprinted by permission of The Macmillan Company and of Geoffrey Bles Ltd. All rights reserved. "Falling" and "The Sheep Child" are reprinted from POEMS 1957-1967 by permis- sion of Wesleyan University Press. "Falling" was first published in THE NEW YORKER. "Outward" is reprinted from SELECTED POEMS by permission of Harcourt Brace & World, Inc. First published in THE NEW YORKER. "On the Eve" is reprinted from THE SIXTIES No. 9, 1967, by permission of The Sixties Press. "A Night in Odessa" and "A Son of the Romanovs" are reprinted from the November and December, 1967 issues of Harpers Magazine by permission of the author. Mr. Spender's poems are reprinted by permission of the author. They were first published in THE TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW, except for "Auden Aetat. XX, LX," which first appeared in SHENANDOAH and THE SUNDAY TIMES (London). DISTRIBUTED TO THE TRADE BY: FREDERICK A. PRAEGER, INC., NEW YORK, WASHINGTON THE GREAT IDEAS TODAY 1968 ROBERT M. HUTCHINS MORTIMER ADLER J. Editors in Chief OTTO BIRD Executive Editor Contributors Eugene McCarthy Louis Simpson John R. Platt J. Theodore C. Sorensen James Dickey Leonard Cottrell Richard H. Rovere Stephen Spender John Plamenatz Arthur Schlesinger Jr. William R. Dell Jeffrey Weiss William Gorman Managing Editor Assistant Editor Contributing Editor Will Gallagher Geoffrey Ward Howard L. Baumann Art Director Picture Editor Art Supervisor Leslie Thompson Ron Villani Thomas Beatty Picture Editor J. Designer Production Manager W. H. Burget Harry Sharp Production Coordinator Barbara Cleary Production Coordinator Chief Copy Editor Copy Editors Elizabeth Chastain Anthony R. Burrell Corv Sodetani CONTENTS PART ONE Ideas and Politics: A Symposium Introduction 2 Evgene]. McCarthy: Reassessment 4 Theodore C. Sorensen: Politics and Dissent 20 Richard H. Rovere: Political Ideas in the United States 36 . . Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Intellectuals in American Politics . 48 PART TWO The Year's Developments in the Arts and Sciences A Symposium on Contemporary Poetry 78 Louis Simpson: The New American Poetry 80 James Dickey: The Self as Agent 90 Stephen Spender: The Vital Self and Secondary Means 98 . . A Little Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 108 John R. Platt: The New Biology and the Shaping of the Future 120 Leonard Cottrell: Archaeology 170 John Plamenatz: Some American Images of Democracy 250 . . PART THREE The Contemporary Status of a Great Idea The Idea of Equality by the Editors 302 PART FOUR Additions to the Great Books Library .... William Wordsworth: Selected Prose and Poetry 352 Walter Bagehot: Physics and Politics 406 C. S. Lewis: The Abolition of Man 496 A NOTE ON REFERENCE STYLE In the following pages, passages in Great Books of the Western World are referred to by the initials 'GBWWJ followed by volume, page number, and page section. Thus, *GBWW, Vol. 39, p. 210b' refers to page 210 in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which is Volume 39 in Great Books of the Western World. The small letter 'b' indicates the page section. In books printed in single V column, and 'b' refer to the upper and lower halves of the page. In books printed in double column, 'a' and *b' refer to the upper and V lower halves of the left column, and 'd' to the upper and lower halves of the right column. For example, 'Vol. 53, p. 210b' refers to the lower half of page 210, since Volume 53, James's Principles of Psychology, is printed in single column. On the other hand, 'Vol. 7, p. 210b' refers to the lower left quarter of the page, since Volume 7, Plato's Dialogues, is printed in double column. Gateway to the Great Books is referred to by the initials 'GGB' followed by volume and page number. Thus, 'GGB, Vol. 10, pp. 39-57' refers to pages 39 through 57 of Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, which is James's essay, "The Will to Believe."
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