In praise of idleness and other essays /
Bertrand Russell.
- New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. [c1935]
- viii p., 1 l., 11-270 p. 22 cm.
"First edition."
In praise of idleness.--"Useless" knowledge.--Architecture and social questions.--The modern Midas.--The ancestry of fascism.--Scylla and Charybdis; or, Communism and fascism.--The case for socialism.--Western civilization.--On youthful cynicism.--Modern homogeneity.--Men versus insects.--Education and discipline.--Stoicism and mental health.--On comets.--What is the soul?