The Practical Cogitator - The Thinker's Anthology

Charles P. Curtis Jr. and Ferris Greenslet

"This book" say its editors, "has been called, after Bowditch's Practical Navigator, The Practical Cogitator. At any rate, it should be a sort of cerebral Coast Pilot, a compilation of what those who have been down this way before, report to those who might otherwise have to pick their course through these channels and into those harbors with nothing but the lead line."

The selections, long and short, prose and verse, from many languages in tresh trans-lations, cover a wide range of world literature from Confucius to ames Cozzens, from the Old Testament to Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Many of the passages quoted are of the kind that color the thought and shape the lives of men.

The Humanist's point of view is always present, and the Arts are not neglected. A feature of the book is the sprinkling of very brief quotations of a line or two which enliveh the book throughout. Whether taken consecutively or used as a bedside book, to read it is, as some who have seen proof affirm, a liberal education.

Philosophy

1962

Houghton Mifflin Company

English