I am deeply grateful to Mrs. Evelyn Whitehead and Professor
T. North Whitehead for their very helpful attitude toward this
project.

Appreciative acknowledgement is made to the Atlantic
Monthly for permission to use "An Appeal to Sanity," "Eng-
land and the Narrow Seas," "Harvard: The Future," "Memories,"
"The Education of an Englishman," "The Problem of Recon-
struction," and "Universities and Their Function;" to the Har-
vard Business Review for permission to use "The Study of the
Past--Its Uses and Its Dangers;" to the Phillips Bulletin for per-
mission to use "The Importance of Friendly Relations Between
England and the United States;" and to the Radcliffe Quarterly
for permission to use "Historical Changes."

The Macmillan Company of New York has kindly granted
permission to quote from the following books by Alfred North Whitehead
: Adventure of Ideas, Modes of Thought, Process and
Reality, Religion in the Making, Science and the Modern World,
and The Aims of Education. Permission has been given jointly
by the Macmillan Company and the Hibbert Journal to quote
from Chapter 5 of The Aims of Education.

The interest and assistance of Mr. Ordway Tead and his asso-
ciates at Harper and Brothers have been thoroughly appreciated.
I wish also to express my gratitude to my colleague, Professor
W. Cameron Henry, for assistance in preparing the manuscript;

-xi-