In praise of idleness and other essays /
by Bertrand Russell.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 1972.
- 231 p. ; 19 cm.
In praise of idleness.--'Useless' knowledge.--Architecture and social questions.--The modern Midas. --The ancestry of fascism.--Scylla and Charybdis; CI, Communism and fascism.--The case for socialism.--Western civilization.--On youthful cynicism.--Modern homogeneity.--Men versus insects.--Education and discipline.--Stoicism and mental health.--On comets. --What is the soul?.