![]() This is unfortunate for, as Heisenberg has observed elsewhere, "in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet." The editors simplify their assignment a bit by making it a treasury of Western thought (goodbye, Lao-tse) and by focusing on the humanities and a few classic scientists (but nothing of Heisenberg) to the exclusion of great masses of material that could not possibly have been assimilated. Well, no, you can't put it all between two covers or even 200 the best that has been thought and written down is too polymorphous, too widely scattered, perhaps even (despite centuries of patient, dedicated sifting) too little known and appreciated for such convenient pigeonholing. ![]() Adler and Charles Van Doren (Bowker, $29.95). GREAT TREASURY OF WESTERN THOUGHT, edited by Mortimer J.
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