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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 The Great Ideas Reasoning Man Mathematics Relation Religion Matter Revolution Mechanics Medicine Rhetoric Memory and Imagination Same and Other Science Metaphysics Sense Mind Sign and Symbol Monarchy Nature Sin Necessity and Contingency Slavery Oligarchy Soul One and Many Space State Opinion Temperance Opposition Theology Philosophy Time Physics Truth Pleasure and Pain Tyranny Poetry Universal and Particular Principle Virtue and Vice Progress War and Peace Prophecy Wealth Prudence Will Punishment Wisdom Quality World Quantity Rear view of the Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, showing exposed elevators, power ducts, gantries, air shafts, and other service elements. The Great Ideas Today 1977 Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Chicago • London • Toronto • Geneva • Sydney • Tokyo • Manila • Seoul The Great Ideas Tbday 1977 ©1977 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. “On the Theory of Transformations, or the Comparison of Related Forms,” is reprinted from On Growth and Form, volume two, by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, second edition, 1952, by permission of the publisher, The Cambridge University Press. “The Victory of the Good over the Evil Principle and the Founding of God on Earth,” translated with an introduction and notes by Theodore M. Greene, and Hoyt H. Hudson, is reprinted from Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant, by permission of The Open Court Publishing Company, La Salle, Illinois, copyright 1934 by The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago. Printed in the U.S.A. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 61-65561 International Standard Book Number: 0-85229-335-6 International Standard Serial Number: 0072-7288 EDITORS IN CHIEF Robert M. Hutchins Mortimer J. Adler (1899-1977) EXECUTIVE EDITOR John Van Doren Consulting Editor Otto Bird Contributing Editor William Gorman Assistant Editor Donald Merriell Editorial Assistant M. Rachael McKay ART DIRECTOR Cynthia Peterson Picture Editor Holly Harrington Layout Artist Richard Batchelor Art Staff John L. Draves Richard Heinke William W. Karpa Miguel Rodriguez PRODUCTION MANAGER J. Thomas Beatty Production Coordinator Barbara Whitney Cleary Copy Editors Cheryl W. Trobiani Elizabeth Chastain ENCYCLOP/EDIA BRITANNICA, INC. Chairman of the Board Robert P. Gwinn President Charles E. Swanson Vice-President/Editorial Charles Van Doren Contents Preface 1 PART ONE A Symposium on Culture and Society Introduction 4 The Growth of Public Patronage Waldemar A. Nielsen 7 The Need for a Comprehensive Cultural Policy Jacques Rigaud 28 State Subsidy and Artistic Freedom Arnold Goodman 41 Public Funding of the Arts in America Michael Straight 53 Patronage through the Ages Philipp Fehl 74 PART TWO Current Developments in the Arts and Sciences Fluman Fossils: The New Revolution Charles E. Oxnard 92 The Idea of a Modern Museum Roy McMullen 154 PART THREE The Contemporary Status of a Great Idea The Idea of Religion—Part One John Edward Sullivan, O.P. 204 PART FOUR Reflections on a Great Books Author The Philosophy of Kant Anthony Quinton 278 PART FIVE Additions to the Great Books Library . The Comparison of Related Forms D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson 320 Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone Immanuel Kant 368 The Utility of Religion John Stuart Mill 404 The Golden Flower Pot E. T. A. Hoffmann 426
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