The Modern Mind Outrun 
 
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. 
 
Charles Scribner's Sons: 1946. First Edition. First printing, with the Scribner's seal and "A" on the copyright page. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. This book previously belonged to the historian Page Smith and bears his stamp on the first free end paper. Otherwise a clean and sharp copy. Unclipped jacket is rubbed, chipped and edge worn. 248 pages. Book is near fine, jacket is good. 
 
A forgotten and original thinker of the twentieth century. If you want to understand, without recourse to ideology, how our history has made us who we are, read Rosenstock-Huessy. 
 
"We may now sum up the astonishing power of the modern mind. This mind has a twofold capacity: it will not get excited or pained over anything because it thinks that to be civilized means to do nothing violent. We may know everything without getting excited. But the same mind will percieve the world as a jungle of strife and greed and blind passions."