The Drift of our Time (Unity Library No. 83)
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, Publishers, 1898. First edition. Stapled, grey wrappers letterpressed in black, 16 pp. An uncommon Kerr title authored by the professor and social reformer, Frank Parsons, who argues that humankind’s development in the eighteenth century was material, in the nineteenth intellectual, and that in the twentieth it will be spiritual. The success of this development will be in discovering “how to make everybody comfortable, well off, intelligent and virtuous.” Some sunning to wrapper edges, one small grease spot to the rear wrapper bottom edge, but Near Fine. Only two copies located in WorldCat institutions (NYU & Univ. of Wisconsin). Item #05193
Price: $75.00