Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.

New York, NY Harcourt Brace & World: Harbinger Books, 1965. Paperback Very Good+ in Wraps: shows mild rubbing to wrapper covers and very light wear to the extremities; a thin faint line of dampstaining along the front hinge and at the heel of the backstrip; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections Bright and clean. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches). 190 pages. Index. Language: English. Weight: 7 ounces. Tasteful Black and yellow titles on a powder blue panel at the front panel (rather than that hideously garish cover which mars the the recent reprint). Trade Paperback. Saving the Appearances is about the world as we see it and the world as it is; it is about God, human nature, and consciousness. The best known of numerous books by the British sage whom C.S. Lewis called the "wisest and best of my unofficial teachers," it draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats. Barfield urges his readers to do away with the assumption that the relationship between people and their environment is static. He dares us to end our exploitation of the natural world and to acknowledge, even revel in, our participation in the diurnal creative process.