There is a great old book of essay #TowardsLiberalEducation that got started in 1945 I think. The first editions ended with #LewisMumford's The #BasisOfRenewal a chapter from his book The #ConditionOfMan. (I wonder if some of the 60s activism was set up by good reading like this from the 40's on?) Mumford says how #JSMill's #SteadyState economy should have used terms like #DynamiEquilibrium instead: like for beaches and living organisms I guess. #SteadyStateEconomy .

> In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of #DonQuixote.
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#LionelTrilling #TowardsLiberalEducation #AlfredNorthWhitehead on #Plato applied to the #Novel and #DonQuijote of #Cervantes. #EduardoGaleano says the first novels were by the Japanese women "SeiShonagon and #MurasakiShikibu