# The organisation of thought, educational and scientific

Author: Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77011

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## Summary

WHEN I had the honour of being made President of the Mathematical Association, I did not foresee the unusual responsibility which it entailed. It was my intention to take as the theme of a presidential address the consideration of some aspect of those special subjects to which my own researches have principally been directed. Events have forced me to abandon that intention. It is useless to discuss abstract questions in the midst of dominant practical preoccupation. We cannot disregard the present crisis in European civilisation. It affects every function of life. In the harder struggle for existence which lies before the nation, all departments of national effort will be reviewed for jud...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-organisation-of-thought-educational-and-scientific-77011/chapters/3/index.md)