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lating him to the oral and written discussion of his mental reactions.

The book may be employed in a variety of ways. The Introduction makes it possible to use it in the so-called Thought Course. While the editor himself believes in the value of careful analysis as a needed help in intellectual discipline, others may use the method that they approve. In whatever way these essays are studied, however, they will furnish food for serious thought.

AMES, IOWA,
April 1, 1918.

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FESSIONAL EDUCATION...John Caird..

XXI. SCIENCE AND CULTURE. ...Thomas Henry Huxley...
XXII. SWEETNESS AND LIGHT. ...Matthew Arnold..
XXIII. IDOLS...
XXIV. WHAT IS COLLEGE FOR...Woodrow Wilson.
XXV. OF KINGS' TREASURIES.... John Ruskin..
XXVI. ON JARGON..
XXVII. TALK AND TALKERS..

XXVIII. MANNERS AND FASHION

XXIX. THE SCIENCE AND PHI-

LOSOPHY OF RECREA-

TION.

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SUMMARY OF THE SUBJECTS

DISCUSSED IN THE ESSAYS

Problems of Country Life

The outlook for scientific agriculture, the influence of the city upon the country, rural organization, the country school the center of the rural community, the country church the center of the rural community, business coöperation the center of the rural community, rural finance, the rural woman, the rural environment, the influence of the out-of-doors upon American Letters.

Science

The growth of science, the scientific philosophy, the limitation of scientific materialism, the relation of science to the progress of civilization.

Education

The education in scientific agriculture, the effect of too great specialization, the education in general science, the education in the humanities, some faults in present-day education, the purpose of the college.

Personal Problems

War

Reading, writing, conversation, manners, recreation, society, responsibility, self-reliance.

America's love of peace, America at war for peace, America's coöperation with other nations for peace, the moral problem of peace.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THIS opportunity is taken to express gratitude to those who have so kindly granted permission to reprint copyright material, to the Atlantic Monthly for "The Drift to the Cities," by G. D. Dickerman, and "A Hopeful View of the Urban Problem," by Mark Jefferson; to the University of Chicago Press for "Psychic Causes of Rural Migration," by Ernest R. Groves, "The Work of Rural Organization," by Thomas Nixon Carver, "The Federal Farm-loan Act," by Robert J. Bulkley, and "The Problem of the Rural Woman," by Kate Waller Barrett; to the Review of Reviews for “City Comforts for Rural Teachers," by George E. Vincent; to the Survey and to the author for "Farm Coöperation for Business, Schools and Churches," by Warren H. Wilson; to the Art World for "Natura in Minimis Existat," by John Burroughs; to the Yale Review and to the author for "Back to Nature," by Henry Seidel Canby; to The International Journal of Ethics and to the author for "Progress," by John Dewey; to the Palmer Company for "The Place of Agriculture in Higher Education," by Liberty H. Bailey; to Doubleday, Page and Company for "Idols," by Charles Mills Gayley; to Charles Scribner's Sons and to the author for "What is College For," by Woodrow Wilson; to G. P. Putnam's Sons, to the Cambridge University Press, and to the author for "On Jargon," by Arthur Quiller-Couch; to the author for "On Responsibility," by John Grier Hibben; to the Century Company for "America's Love of Peace," by John Hay; and to Longmans, Green and Company for "The Moral Equivalent of War," by William James.

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