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...CONDITION OF MAN - Lewis Mumford - Harcourt, Brace...
...year-old U.S. engineering student discovered his dream man. The student was Lewis Mumford. His dream man was Sir Patrick Geddes, a thin, agile Scot with a beard like the gorse on his native moors...
...years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential condition of man, Geddes used to say, is that man is "always attempting the impossible and achieving it." Intellectual Cement Tester. Young Mumford decided to be a Renaissance man, too. So he got a job as an investigator in the dress and waist industry, became an assistant cement tester in the U.S. Bureau of Standards, a U.S. Navy radio operator in World War I. He was also an unsuccessful playwright, a student...
...Cities, the growth of the modern "megalopolis" (TIME, April 18, 1938). Like the first two volumes, The Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence of an Old Testament prophet, sometimes with the horse sense of a veterinarian...
...meeting held Wednesday evening, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the second oldest learned society in America, announced the election of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to its presidency...