Fact and fiction
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Copyright date: 1961
Subjects: Filosofie
Notes: Selected essays, articles, addresses, and short stories.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Books that influenced me in youth:; title: The importance of Shelley --; title: The romance of revolt --; title: Revolt in the abstract --; title: Disgust and its antidote --; title: An education in history --; title: The pursuit of truth -- -- pt. 2.; title: Politics and education:; title: What is freedom? --; title: What is democracy? --; title: A scientist's plea for democracy --; title: The story of colonization --; title: Pros and cons of nationalism --; title: The reasoning of Europeans --; title: The world I should like to live in --; title: Old and young cultures --; title: Education for a difficult world --; title: University education -- -- pt. 3.; title: Divertissements:; title: Cranks --; title: The right will prevail or The road to Lhasa --; title: Newly discovered maxims of La Rochefoucauld --; title: Nightmares:; title: The fisherman's nightmare or Magna est veritas ;; title: The theologian's nightmare --; title: Dreams:; title: Jowett ;; title: God ;; title: Henry the navigator ;; title: Prince Napoleon Louis ;; title: The catalogue --; title: Parables:; title: Planetary effulgence ;; title: The misfortune of being out of date ;; title: Murderers' fatherland: a fable -- -- pt. 4.; title: Peace and war:; title: Psychology and East-West tension --; title: War and peace in my lifetime --; title: The social responsibility of scientists --; title: Three essentials for a stable world --; title: Population pressure and war --; title: Formal address to the Congress of the Pugwash Movement at Vienna, September 20, 1958 --; title: Address to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament meeting at Manchester, May 1, 1959 --; title: What neutrals can do to save the world --; title: The case for British neutralism --; title: Can war be abolished? --; title: Human life is in danger.