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New at IWP Books: F. H. Hayward, 1917, Professionalism and Originality. “The Press, as an organ of criticism, can boycott, if it choose, any subjects that would offend the religious, political, or professional susceptibilities of its readers or would prove dull to the mediocre people who…Read the post →
A Little Learning
From Jacques Barzun's, 1964, Science: The Glorious Entertainment. “Specialism is born of what the philosopher Arthur Balfour called ‘the pernicious doctrine that superficial knowledge is…
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New at IWP Books: Alfred North Whitehead, 1929, The Function of Reason. "It is by their emphasis on schemes of thought that the Greeks founded…
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