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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to the following fór permission to include copyright matéria!: George Allén & Unwin Ltd. and Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, fór an extract from The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell; Edward Arnold Ltd. and Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. fór an extract from Abinger Harvest by E. M. Forster; the author fór an extract from Day's End by H. E. Bates; Jonathan Cape Ltd. fór extracts from The Old Mán and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mán by James Joyce, Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, and Meaning and Purpose by Kenneth Walker; Chatto & Windus Ltd. fór an extract from Possible Worlds by J. B. S. Haldane; Cambridge University Press fór an extract from Mán on kis Pást by Herbert Butterfield; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. fór the poem To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker and an extract from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas; Mrs. Hilda L. Edwards fór an extract from Tkinking to Somé Purpose by Susan Stebbing; Faber & Faber Ltd. and Coward McCann Inc. fór an extract from Lord of the FUes by William Golding; Faber & Faber Ltd. and Harcourt, Brace & World Inc. fór an extract from Modem Education and the Classics by T. S. Eliot; Faber & Faber Ltd. and Random House Inc. fór 'Look Stranger' and 'Oh, What is that Sound' from Collected Shorter Poems by W. H. Auden; the author and Holt, Rinehart & Winston Inc. fór 'Tree at my Window' from The Complete Poems of Róbert Frost; Hamish Hamilton Ltd. and The New Yorker fór an extract from 'My Life and Hard Times' by James Thurber from The Thurber Camival; vii