Thinking to Some Purpose

"In the autumn of 1936 at the annual conference of the British Institute of Adult Education I gave a lecture entitled 'Thinking'. This lecture was published and I am indebted to the Institute for permission to use some passages from it. This book originated, however, in a proposal made to me by the B.B.C. that I should expand the topic of that lecture and draw up a synopsis for twelve Talks. For good reasons I did not give the Talks, but I submitted the synopsis. Although the manuscript was...