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"A remarkable book by a remarkable man."—Times.
Our Social Heritage
By PROFESSOR GRAHAM WALLAS
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The "Social Heritage" discussed in this book is the whole body of knowledge and habit which is handed down from one human generation to another by teaching and learning. Men have been for so many generations dependent for their existence on this heritage that they have become biologically unfitted to live without it, and its conscious criticism and revision has become the main problem of human organization.
The chapters deal first with the socially inherited expedients used in individual work and thought, and then with the expedients used in group, national and international co-operation, with special reference to the educational problems involved and to the present conflict between democracy and vocationalism. The book ends with a discussion of the efficiency as means of human co-operation of the conceptions of Liberty and Science, and of the institutions of "Constitutional Monarchy" and the Church. The method used throughout is the same kind of psychological analysis as that used in the Author's "Human Nature in Politics" (1908) and "The Great Society" (1914).