Man and society
By: Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief ; Clifton Fadiman, associate editor.
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-; Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Series: Gateway to the great books -- 7
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Chicago; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Other titles: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes: Complements Great books of the western world (AC 1 G7 1952); includes only short works.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: value: Sir Francis Bacon / Of youth and age. Of parents and children.  Of marriage and single life. Of great place. Of seditions and troubles. Of custom and education. Of followers and friends. Of usury. Of riches; value: Jonathan Swift / Resolutions when I come to be old.  An essay on modern education.  A meditation upon a broomstick.  A modest proposal for preventing the children of Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country; value: David Hume / Of refinement in the arts. Of money. Of the balance of trade. Of taxes. Of the study of history; value: Plutarch / Of bashfulness; value: Robert Louis Stevenson / The lantern-bearers; value: John Ruskin / An idealist's arraignment of the age; value: William James / On a certain blindness in human beings. The energies of men. Great men and their environment; value: Arthur Schopenhauer / On education; value: Michael Faraday / Observations on mental education; value: Edmund Burke / Letter to the sheriffs of Bristol; value: John C. Calhoun / The concurrent majority (from A disquisition on government); value: Thomas Babington Macaulay / Machiavelli; value: Voltaire / English men and ideas (from Letters on the English); value: Dante Alighieri / On world government (from De Monarchia); value: Jean Jacques Rousseau / A lasting peace through the federation of Europe; value: Immanuel Kant / Perpetual peace; value: Karl von Clausewitz / What is war?; value: Thomas Robert Malthus / The principle of population (from Population: The first essay).