TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION Lewis MumfordHarcourt, Brace ($4.50).
Though preachers (usually) must be licensed, politicians elected and princes born, anyone is free to become a prophet. From Major Prophet Marx to Minor Prophet H. G. Wells there has been a swarm of soothsayers laying down the law, but rarely have their tables of stone weathered the drizzle of a single generation. Of the modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes...
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