Popper Karl. The open society and its enemies (Volumes I and II)

1962 Fifth edition (revised).
1966.
ISBN: 0-691-01968-1, 0-691-0197.
Scanner’s note: The text has been spell-checked and checked.
for consistency in various ways, but it has not been proofread.
By the same author:
The Logic Of Scientific Discovery.
The Poverty Of Historicism.
Conjectures And Refutations.
It will be seen . that the Erewhonians are a meek and long-suffering people, easily led by the nose, and quick to offer up common sense at the shrine of logic, when a philosopher arises among them who carries them away . by convincing them that.
their existing institutions are not based on the strictest principlerality.
—SAMUEL BUTLER.
In my course I have known and, according to my measure, have co-operated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in the business.
—EDMUND BURKE.