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...Last week wise old President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University, himself a doctor, told graduates of Cornell University Medical College not to let the medical dome constrict them. Said he: ''The medical profession (and the legal profession) have that tendency to think that whatever was is right and that change and development are wrong...
...follow Translator Livingston's example and read The Mind and Society 20 times; few may find it, as he does "the most significant book I have ever read without any exception whatsoever." But most readers will agree that the translation of so long and intricate a work, packed with cross-references, diagrams, mathematical equations, footnotes in many languages, quotations from modern and classical writers, represents a superb scholarly accomplishment...
...before they discovered that the Italian publisher did not control translation rights, that the publisher of a French translation controlled only French rights, that Pareto's widow alone could give them the world rights in English. With an agreement for world rights sealed and signed, with Professor Livingston started on the translation, it was discovered that a tentative translation of most of the text had already been completed by .Professor Andrew Bongiorno of Oberlin College, working with Professor James Harvey Rogers, who only thought of translation rights when the work was almost finished. After more negotiations Professor Bongiorno...
...claims of disciples who rank him with Newton and Aristotle to the deprecations of Socialists who consider him a borrower from Marx and Sorel and damn him as the philosopher of Italian Fascism, whose appearance he predicted. Although Mussolini was inspired by Pareto, and made him a Senator, Translator Livingston doubts that Pareto approved of Mussolini or Fascismo, feels that his remarks when Mussolini took power were the expressions of a prophet's "I told you so!'' satisfaction...
...comments as in the long discussion of sex as a residue that fills a great part of Vol. II, irreverent readers may get more than a fleeting glimpse of a great thinker in his more human and homely role as a cranky old professor, may echo with amusement Translator Livingston's grave comment: "In his treatment of the sex residue Pareto is less objective than is his wont...