Table of Contents:
  • The perfectibility of intellect, by J. S. Bruner
  • History as the organization of man's memory, by H. Butterfield
  • The value of art in an expanding world, by Sir K. M. Clark
  • Conservation and man's environment, by I. M. Cowan
  • On being a meter and a half long, by G. E. Hutchinson
  • Biological and mental evolution, an exercise in analogy, by A. Koestler
  • Anthropology: its achievements and future, by C. Levi-Strauss
  • Technics and the nature of man, by L. Mumford
  • Physics and man's understanding, by R. Oppenheimer
  • Intellectual values and the future, by S. E. Toulmin
  • Knowledge and understanding of the physical universe as determinants of man's progress, by F. L. Whipple.