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The Fourth Epoch

The Sociological Imagination. By C. Wright M ills. (0.0 .P., 36s.) Witicaur Mit.Ls is a liberal democrat, appalled by the contrast between the increasing rationality of......

Shots In The Dark

The House of Intellect. By Jacques Barzun. (Seeker and Warburg, 32s. 6d.) ONE of the most irritating things about the dis- cussions of mass culture which we read in our organs......