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...FINLAND STATION by EDMUND WILSON 590 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...history of man's ideas and imagining" set against the conditions that shaped both the ideas and the men. Of all his literary forays with that end in view, the broadest and most passionately humane is his study of the theorists and practitioners of revolution called To the Finland Station. Revolutionary rhetoric is once again very much in the air, and the book has now been reissued more than 30 years after its original publication...
...Social history, he saw, was not, as man had long conceived it, a mysterious pageant presided over by God. It was, instead, a work of man. Society has laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station in Petrograd) and his harsh speech calling upon the soldiers and workers of the revolution to reject the reforms of the revolutionary Provisional Government and seize...
...Finland Station is illuminated by a contagious awe at mankind's need to believe that the course of history and steady human progress are inevitably linked. History has not yet made clear whether such a belief is a narcotic, a noble inspiration, a necessary myth or a tragic delusion. But the author shows where any reader's sympathies must lie. Like Michelet's histories, as Edmund Wilson describes them, this book "makes us feel that we ourselves are the last chapter of the story and that the next chapter...
...Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy; Simon S. Kuznets, Baker Professor of Economics emeritus; George Homans '32, professor of Sociology; Reed C. Rollins, Gray Professor of Systematic Botany; Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine; and Maxwell Finland '22, Minot Professor of Medicine emeritus...