VOLUME 1
Part One—Adventure of Ideas
Bolder adventure is needed–the adventure of ideas, and the advantage of practice conforming itself to ideas. The best service that ideas can render is gradually to lift into the mental poles the ideal of another type of perfection which becomes a programme for reform.
–Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)1
VOLUME 2
Part Two—Anarchy of Transition
In every age of well-marked transition there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing, and there is the oncoming of a new complex habit. Between the two lies a zone of anarchy.
–Alfred North Whitehead2
Part Three—Programme for Reform
Human nature is so complex that paper plans for society are to the statesmen not worth even the price of the defaced paper. Successful progress creeps from point to point, testing each step.
–Alfred North Whitehead3