The Present Age
@article{Kierkegaard1962ThePA, title={The Present Age}, author={Soren Aabye Kierkegaard}, journal={Nature}, year={1962}, volume={137}, pages={26-27} }
WE have received the first two numbers of the Present Age, a new monthly journal edited and published by Dr. W. J. Stein, 144 Harborough Road, London, S.W.16 (2s. a month). The editor, in a covering circular, points out that modern life has created such a high degree of specialisation that it has become almost impossible to have cognisance of more than one sphere of knowledge or activity. The Present Age is designed to relate different fields of knowledge by the publication of articles…
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