Psychological Conditions of Peace. By William Brown, D.M.(Oxon), D.Sc.(Lond.),F.R.C.P. A. & C. Black Ltd. 7s. 6d. net. This is a second and enlarged edition of the author's War and Peace which increases the book's extent by one-half. The general thesis adopted is that " the problem of war and peace is one which needs to be treated constructively with an energy and determination as free as possi...

Theories of the meaning of life are divided into two categories: nihilistic and anti-nihilistic. The latter is divided, in turn, into the view that life is meaningful and the view that life can be made meaningful. In this paper, we deploy a descriptive-analytic method to discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of nihilism. In his view, God does not exist, the human being is born and dies without a reas...

amount of imaginative writing regarding the part played by malaria in bringing about the downfall of Rome. The author of this book, who has spent his life fighting malaria in the Roman Campagna and who cannot therefore be accused of underrating the importance of this disease, deals with facts, as far as history can be said to provide facts, and does not subscribe to this romantic view of the de...

In a real sense, all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.—Martin Lu...