The Growth of Modern Thought And Culture [antikvár]

PREFACE To be well educated, someone has said, is to know a little about everything and everything about one thing. But in this age of specialization too many persons have narrowly confined their interests to one field of endeavor and have tended to neglect other disciplines or have completely forgottén what they once learned about them. This book attempts to provide the reader with the fundamental facts and pertinent comment in the history of art, music, literature, science and philosophy of the past 500 years. It is intended to be brief and concise, though the essentials, the basic ideas and men, the achievements, intellectual and cultural, have been included. The author hopes that this highly condensed account of modern thought and culture will be not only informational in itself but that it alsó will be useful as a guidebook for further reading and study. H.W.