| Description |
332 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Essay index reprint series
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Essay index reprint series.
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| Note |
Reprint of the 1939 ed. |
| Contents |
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN -- Some Sacred Books -- The Group Mind in Politics -- Who are the Jews? -- Face the Facts -- Nazi Economics -- CHRISTIANITY IN MODERN LIFE -- Peace On Earth -- A Religion for Weaklings? -- Freethinkers in Congress -- William Tyndale and the Bible -- Lives of Christ -- Away From It All -- Making the Clergy Cheapjacks -- A New Reformation -- Catholic Modernism -- The Buchman Group Controversy -- Are We Christians? -- ENGLAND -- Let Us Remember -- The Gentlemen -- Moral Indignation -- Toryism and the Future -- "The English are Soft" -- Are We Really Patriotic? -- HISTORY -- Our Alien Civilization -- Mediterranean Meditation -- The Papacy -- Voltaire -- Buried Cities -- Are Great Men Always Bad? -- Three Human Monsters -- I. Nero -- II. Timur the Tartar -- III. Ivan the Terrible -- SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- Boredom -- Alien Immigrants -- Queer Taboos -- Crime and Punishment -- Havelock Ellis -- Praise the Doctors -- Problems of Population -- LITERATURE -- Do Books Make Us Wiser? -- The Poets In War -- Did Shakespeare Unlock His Heart? -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- Autobiographies -- Crime Stories -- H.G. Wells As Pessimist -- MISCELLANEOUS -- How Much Do You Owe to Luck? -- Seventy-Nine Years Old -- Home -- Hopes and Fears -- Nature's Handicapps -- A Pagan Saint |
| ISBN |
0836921925 |
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9780836921922 |
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