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...THINKING-Ernest Dimnet-Simon & Schtuster...
Briefly, thinking is a series of images. Even the ignoramus has images, but he is either incapable of being aware of them or too lazy to seize them. The greatest difficulty of the average person, Author Dimnet thinks, lies in the sorting out of confusing or conflicting images...
...Author Dimnet tells of the obstacles and the helps to thinking in a style that is as informal as it is polished and rich in literary background. One of his favorite devices is to hold thought-conversations between himself and his reader-of-the-moment...
...Thinking was first written in English, though Ernest Dimnet is a Frenchman and also writes facilely in Latin. He is 62, an abbe and a canon, and lives in the shadow of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Cardinal Newman's Apologia, which he won as a prize for playing handball in his schooldays, has influenced him more than any other book. He lectured at Harvard several years ago. He likes Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and dislikes the Freudian case system. The Bronte Sisters is his best known earlier work...
...first time, by a German. Count Harry Kreisler, Germany's first Minister to Poland and leader of the "Nie-Wieder-Krieg" demonstrations in Berlin, is the German representative. Viscount Birkenhead and Sir Edward Grigg, formerly political secretary to Lloyd George, will attend from Great Britain, and Canon Ernest Dimnet, professor in the College Stanislas at Paris, from France. Sir Paul Vinogradov, the eminent professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, formerly a resident of Moscow, will deliver a course of public lectures, and Dr. Estinislav Zebellos, Minister of Foreign Relations in three Argentina Cabinets, will take part in the discussion...