Volume 20, Number 11 · June 28, 1973
Progress Is the Mother of Problems (G. K. Chesterton)
By W.H. Auden
The Ancient Concept of Progress
by E.R. Dodds
Oxford University Press, 210 pp., $13.75
Those, I hope they are many, who have read two of his earlier books, The Greeks and the Irrational and Pagans and Christians in an Age of Anxiety, will know that Professor Dodds is that rare creature, a very learned scholar who wishes to share his thoughts not with his fellow scholars only but also with intelligent readers who are not specialists in his field, which in this day and age means persons who cannot read Greek. They will also, I think, have received the impression that, as a man, he is a rationalist and a believer in the 'liberal values,' but at the same time acutely conscious of the difficulties and dangers inherent in both rationalism and liberalism.
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