A journalist’s portraits of six European thinkers who shaped the ideas of 1914: the Belgian dramatist Maeterlinck, the philosopher Henri Bergson, the mathematician Henri Poincaré, the biologist Élie Metchnikoff, the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald and the evolutionist Ernst Haeckel. Slosson visited several of them and sets out each man’s life and central message in plain terms.
A lucid snapshot of what educated readers thought were the big ideas on the eve of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.