Books: Symposium

TOWARD CIVILIZATION — Edited by Charles A. Beard—Longmans, Green ($3).

Whither Mankind (TIME, Nov. 5, 1928) was an examination of modern civilization by "outsiders"—specialists in the humanities—who reported that the basis of modern culture is technological: i.e., founded on science and machinery. Toward Civilization is a companion volume, also edited by Sociologist Charles Austin Beard, written by "insiders"—scientists, engineers. Says Editor Beard: "[The contributors] are inquiring whether engineers and scientists are at present a lot of small fellows doing great things dimly understood or are big men capable of heroic and highly...