Mortimer J. Adler, "The Principles and Methods of Syntopical Construction", Appendix II, The Great Ideas, Volume II, 1219-1299.
This is the much longer, more intricate description of how the Syntopicon was written, promised in the introductory essay in Volume I. Despite the negative views of Adler and his project that became chronic after post-modernism…
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