First edition thus, 8vo., original mustard-yellow cloth with dust jacket. London, Percival Marshall. 1948
Dust jacket chipped and soiled. This series of 11 essays, including Forster's "The Point of View of the Creative Artist", was originally broadcast on the B.B.C. as a series of "lay sermons" discussing the effects of harnessing atomic power. Other contributions are from Arthur Koestler ("What the Modern World is Doing to the Soul of Man") and J.B.S. Haldane ("The View of a Biologist"). Kirkpatrick B22.