7–2422.
An anthology which aims not so much to present an orderly, rhetorical argument for any theory of immortality as to bring before the reader a composite picture of the spiritual intentions of mankind thru the ages.
“This is the best work of the kind that has appeared in anything like the same compass. The compiler has displayed rare judgment and discrimination in her selections. Should be found in every well-ordered library.”
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Patten, Simon Nelson. New basis of civilization. (American social progress series.) **$1. Macmillan.
7–18589.
A book designed for collateral reading and class discussion which “interprets in a specially suggestive and stimulating way the meaning and significance of recent social changes with which the practical social worker is so actively engaged and to which he is so close in point of time and contact that he may well fail to secure for himself the stimulus of the larger outlook upon the events in which he is a participant.” It discusses the basis in resources, heredity, family life, social classes, social consciousness, amusement, character and social control.
“Prof. Patten ... too often obscures his meaning to the common mind by expressing perfectly sensible observations and conclusions in the formulae they frequently employ to conceal lack of thought, but he has nevertheless an astonishing number of really vital and suggestive things to say. In short, in many points, at least, he has hold of the truth.”