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Because We Are Too Many

Christopher Booker FORCES OF CHANGE: Why We Are The Way We Are Now by Henry Hobhouse Sidgwick & Jackson, £17.95, pp. 264 F our years ago Henry Hobhouse pro- duced a remarkable......

Patterns Of Order In Disorder

Tony Osman CHAOS: MAKING A NEW SCIENCE by James Gleick Heinemann, £14.95, Cardinal, .15.99, pp.354 W e could well be in at the beginning of a new science, as important as those......