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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex library. Blue cloth library binding with lettering and call number on spine. Congregational Library of Boston bookplate on front pastedown, stamp on title page, and card holder on rear pastedown. Binding is rugged, tight, and in very good condition, corners slightly bumped. Interior pages are only slightly tanned, with a few pencil notations throughout. The book is arranged in four parts: Sociological, Cosmological, Philosophical, and Civilization. The book traces the effect of certain ideas that promote the "slow drift of mankind towards civilization." Whitehead's argument, in part, is the necessity of truth, beauty, and adventure to the continuation of civilization, adventure being defined as the pursuit of originality and novelty. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He was the coauthor of the Principia Mathematica, and the originator of Process Philosophy. Hardcover. Condition: good. 392 page, octavo.

An unusual "Bespoke" copy of the uncommon First Edition in a home made dustwrapper over publishers violet cloth Crown 8vo.half title Preface viii.Contents 2nd half title1-241. No ownership marks.