Volume 27, Number 6 · April 17, 1980
Sounding Off
By J.M. Cameron
History of the Idea of Progress
by Robert Nisbet
Basic Books, 370 pp., $16.95
Explanation and Power: The Control of Human Behavior
by Morse Peckham
The Seabury Press, 290 pp., $17.95
Hope and History, An Exploration
by Morton Smith
Harper & Row: World Perspectives, Volume 54, 230 pp., $12.95
We are beset with books that look serious and important. They come from respectable publishers. Some of them are by new writers, some by men of established reputation; and of these many are useful and well written and a few are stunning in their accomplishment. Some may be left to drop out of sight, to end on the remainder tables of the bookshops. Of those that are neither useful nor accomplished a few are symptomatic, in that they tell us something about the state of the learned world out of which they come.
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