ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I had thought to append a selected bibliography of books bearing on American Humanism, but there seems little point in duplicating here—with certain subtractions and a few additions—the bibliography at the back of Humanism and America. That now historic symposium—and I am greatly indebted to the publishers, Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., for their permission to make excerpts from it—will probably aid the reader hitherto unread in the New Humanism to become acquainted in the quickest fashion with the leading personalities among the New Humanists and the extensive ramification of their views. Such a reader should, however, if he is the man to hoe a long row, press on to the complete works of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More. Houghton Mifflin and Co. have kindly allowed me to quote from several of Babbitt’s books and from the later volumes of More’s Shelburne Essays, as well as from Mont-St.-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams. I wish to acknowledge with thanks other favors of the like kind received from the following:

For permission to quote extracts from The Thing, Orthodoxy, and Heretics by G. K. Chesterton—Dodd, Mead and Co.; for permission to use a passage from Julien Benda’s The Treason of the Intellectuals—William Morrow and Co.; for permission to make brief quotations from A. N. Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World, A. S. Eddington’s Science and the Unseen World, Walter Lippmann’s A Preface to Morals, John Dewey’s Democracy and Education, and from the works of Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater—the Macmillan Co.; for permission to use passages from Stuart P. Sherman’s On Contemporary Literature—Henry Holt and Co.; for permission to extract matter from Stuart P. Sherman’s Shaping Men and Women, T. S. Eliot’s For Lancelot Andrews, H. G. Wells’s Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island, and Hilaire Belloc’s preface to Ruth Pitter’s First and Second Poems—Doubleday, Doran and Co.; for permission to quote relevant passages from Margaret Naumburg’s The Child and the World and Herbert Read’s The Sense of Glory—Harcourt, Brace and Co. Similar courtesies were extended to me by Charles Scribner and Sons in the case of excerpts from Jacques Maritain’s Three Reformers, the Yale University Press in the case of Robert Shafer’s Progress and Science, the Princeton University Press in the case of L. T. More’s The Dogma of Evolution, the University of North Carolina Press in the case of Norman Foerster’s The American Scholar, Horace Liveright, Inc., in the case of Charles Fort’s The Book of the Damned, and, lastly, the Viking Press in the case of Sorel’s Reflections on Violence. To all I am grateful.

I may add that the American reader who enjoys following the progress of a literary controversy as the French appear to enjoy their polemical outbreaks will find the pages of the Bookman from month to month alive with the debating points of the New Humanists. For further information on the Douglas Proposals spoken of rather hopefully in the chapter on Humanism and economics, see Unemployment or War by Maurice Colbourne, published by Coward-McCann, Inc.

Finally, I will name a very few books that have been of great service to me in forming my own point of view as distinct from the humanistic viewpoint. They are, in metaphysics, The Three Conventions by Denis Saurat, published by the Dial Press; in psychology, Beyond Behaviorism by Robert Courtney, brought out by Grant Publications, Inc.; in literature, Readers and Writers and The Art of Reading, both by A. R. Orage, the former published by Knopf, and the latter by Farrar and Rinehart, Inc.

G. M.