By 1955, three years after this was written, Dr. Adler's Institute had spent $640,000 of the Ford Foundation's money and had grappled with exactly one aspect of Western Thought, namely Freedom. Their musings were embodied in a two-volume work (one was a bibliography) titled Research on Freedom: Report of Dialectical Discoveries and Constructions. "The production," I wrote in my book on the Ford Foundation, "lives up to its title. It is a jungle of jargon, a Luna Park of 'nuclear agreements,' 'taxonomic questions,' 'explicative issues,' etc.... 'Problems of style are most vexatious,' the authors confess." Verily there is no end to the foolishness of this world.

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