- The mounting concern of scientists is reflected in the very large number of articles dealing with this problem from the standpoint of various sciences, and appearing particularly during the last eight years in the issues of the Scientific Monthly and of the American Scientist. There is in these articles a great deal of fine thinking; so that he would know the best of current thought in these matters should run down these files.
- See especially, A. Schweitzer : The Decay and Restoration of Civilization , pp. 80 – 86 . Dale Memorial Lectures 1922. A. & C. Black 1932.—W. Lippmann: Education Versus Civilization. American Scholar 10(1941): 184 ff.—L. Mumford: The Making of Men, in The Humanities Look Ahead, pp. 132 ff. Stanford University Press 1943.—Ortega y Gasset: The Barbarism of Specialization, in The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton 1932—A. J. Carlson: Science Versus Life. Sigma Xi Quarterly 28(1940): 147 ff.—I. L. Kandel: The End of an Era. Teachers' College, Columbia University 1941.—Realization of our failure crops up in the most unexpected places, and their occurrence is most heartening. The most dramatic and telling occurs in the speech of Gen. Douglas MacArthur at Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945, at the moment of sealing the greatest success of armed power in our history.
- In illustration of statement one , see David Dietz : Science and the Future. The American Scholar 11 ( 1942 ): 292 ff. —In illustration of the second, see J. Schifferes, in the Bulletin of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 1945.—In illustration of the third, see D. Spaeth, The Humanities in Peace and War. Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 30(1944): 581 ff.
- Reprinted from The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset , by permission of W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Copyright 1932 by the publishers.
- From Universities: American, English, German , by Abraham Flexner . Copyright by the Oxford University Press . Used by permission.
- op. cit., ch. 12.
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