And if you want to hear the master’s voice, Vintage has reissued Fritz Schumacher’s A Guide for the Perplexed (£6.99, ISBN 0 09 948021 2). His philosophical guide to how to live, it contains much to interest and much to deplore – his jeering attack on Darwinism for example.
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