"Ir Suatt Bk Poke Ebro You."—Luclus "As a man tbinketh, so is he." This is the text of the above valuable addition to philosophic idealism, by Lucius Humphrey.
What. i the panacea for all the evils of the modern world wherein the greatest achievement of great material advance seems to be material chaos, where there is abject poverty in the midst of great wealth. where human values seem io have been shattered by the development of mechanical power? Not Communism. not Fascism, not Capitalism, not Democracy, but a: development of the right technique of intelligent thinking. Directed and controlled thought has produced outstanding achievements in the realms of Science and Art, and by this means alone can we dominate circumstances, instead of being the victims of them. Man must become conscious of his mental and spiritual powers, (called by the author the Creative Principle), and relate these to his physical experiences. A negative mental state, such as that of fear of failure, must be transformed into a positive state of faith.
"When desires have been attained, fulfilment is complete only when we understand the joint relationship of ourselves and our neighbours to the Creative Principle, (merely another interpretation of the two great commandments of Christ), The author claims that his "Technique of Thinking" does not depend on any particular religion or dogma, though he himself takes as his model the Master Mind of Nazareth.
The principles of the author's Philosophy are clearly expounded, and if, perhaps, the quotations are too numerous and repetitions too frequent, these are faults of his sincerity.-
A Tecsook or Mansi Pumosorky of Philosophy under the Direction of M. Shitokov. 'Translated' by A. C. Moseley. Translation revised and edited by John Lewis, BSc, PhD. Gollancz, London.
For some years writing books on Russia has been one of the chief hobbies of journalistic dilettantes Russia has been one of the chief hobbles of journalistic dilettantes and Political sentimentalists, the majority of whom have written with vigour and dogmatism in inverse proportion to their knowledge. So much is this the case that the serious student is more than a little suspicious of any book that pretends to deal with the subject. Let it be said at once that this volume is in an entirely different category and is of first-rate importance for anyone who wants to understand the Soviet mind. The last three of the four sections of the book are a translation from a textbook of Dialectic Materialism prepared by the Leningrad Institute of Philosophy. for use in Russia in institutions of higher education directly connected with the Communist Party and Technical Institutes (which, according to the editor, correspond to our universities). It is thus neither a secondhand account of Soviet thought nor a manifesto specially prepared for foreign consumption, but an un-Varnished Soviet primer from which young Russian engineers, doctors, chemists, and teachers are being instructed in philosophy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.