The morning notes of Adelbert Ames, Jr.,: Including a correspondence with John Dewey

from the inside cover flap: "Adelbert Ames, Jr., was once characterized by Alfred North Whitehead as an "authentic genius." His intellectual achievement ranks him with James, Whitehead, and Dewey, and yet, because he did not commit most of his radical research into the nature of human perception to publication, he has remained too little known to be appreciated. This volume may come as a surprising adventure of the mind even to his peers in the field of perceptual psychology. Here is a book as unusual as the innovating research it describes. The main body consists of "morning notes" - memoranda written by Ames as progressive clarifications of his thinking and investigation into the "seeming" by which human beings live and relate themselves to the fundamentally unknowable world of assumed "reality"."'The notes assembled here begin," Mr. Cantril writes, "with the phase of his thinking after he turned to the psychology of visual perception with all the ramifications that he saw this subject had relevant to the nature and range of human experience." . . . With Preface and 236 pages including Index and Bibliography.