+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p703 D 4 ’19 1500w
CORY, HERBERT ELLSWORTH. Intellectuals and the wage workers. $2 Sunwise turn 304
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“Mr Herbert Ellsworth Cory’s ‘The Intellectuals and the wage workers’ is an attempt to present the terms upon which intellectuals and wage workers should unite in the task of social reconstruction. But Mr Cory sees modern society, the labor movement, and the purpose of revolution in psychoanalytic terms. He states his purpose thus: ‘I have been trying to make some forecast of the processes by which intellectuals and wage workers will unite to break down rationally those institutions which are but hysterical symptoms, compromises, bad habit-formations from competitive random activities, morbid complexes and inertia.’”—Nation
“His apparently easy references to the most diverse contributors in half a dozen fields of human knowledge, philosophy, psychology, education, the labor movement, economics, the physical sciences, are amazing. Yet a full integration seems to be lacking. The members of the proletariat, to whom, it is evident, he dedicates his volume, will be least likely to grasp Mr Cory’s message because it is so heavily weighted with scientific terms.”
+ − Nation 110:338 Mr 13 ’20 350w
“He has revealed the tragedy of modern thought, but has lacked the force to bring it into touch with the tragedy of modern life, and has produced half a book instead of a whole one. The half book that he has written could hardly be done better.” Gilbert Cannan
+ − N Y Times 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 1650w
“I hope that it will be widely read; for there is need for all to know what fantastic speculation is constantly issuing from the revolutionary fold. Among thinking persons the book will prove its own best antidote.” W. J. Ghent