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Books

To Build Jerusalem It CHRISTOPHER H i lLL U TOPIAN thought springs from the contrast between reality, and possibility; from a realisation that society could be organised on......

Cwsarian Birth

The Edge of the Sword. By Netanel Lorch. (Putnam, 45s.) RECENT events in Syria sharply remind us of the perennial, resurgent undercurrents of the Middle East, seldom still for......

. Relative Absolutes Foresight And Understanding. By...

18s.) WHAT is science for? With great success Stephen Toulmin has failed to answer the intended ques- tion of his book, based on a series of lectures given at Indiana University......