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PERSEUS
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW SERIES
- DÆDALUS, or Science and the Future
By J. B. S. Haldane - ICARUS, or The Future of Science
By the Hon. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S. - THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST
By F. G. Crookshank, M.D. Fully Illustrated - WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES
By Prof. A. M. Low. With four Diagrams - NARCISSUS, An Anatomy of Clothes
By Gerald Heard. Illustrated - TANTALUS, or The Future of Man
By F. C. S. Schiller - THE PASSING OF THE PHANTOMS
By Prof. C. J. Patten, M.A., M.D., Sc.D., F.R.A.I. - CALLINICUS, A Defence of Chemical Warfare
By J. B. S. Haldane - QUO VADIMUS? Some Glimpses of the Future
By E. E. Fournier d’Albe, D.Sc., F.Inst.P. - THE CONQUEST OF CANCER
By H. W. S. Wright, M.S., F.R.C.S. - HYPATIA, or Woman and Knowledge
By Dora Russell (The Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell) - LYSISTRATA, or Woman’s Future and Future Woman
By A. M. Ludovici - WHAT I BELIEVE
By the Hon. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S. - PERSEUS, or Of Dragons
By H. F. Scott Stokes, M.A. - THE FUTURE OF SEX
By Rebecca West - THE EVOCATION OF GENIUS
By Alan Porter - AESCULAPIUS, or Disease and The Man
By F. G. Crookshank, M.D. - PROTEUS, or The Future of Intelligence
By Vernon Lee
Other Volumes in Preparation
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If Jones of Chelsea should bedeck
With virgin’s head a horse’s neck,
And decorate this monstrous birth
With limbs of all the beasts on earth
And many-coloured wings, would you
Contain your laughter at the private view?
Horace, Ars Poetica, 1–5.