(Besterman, Theodore). Driesch, Hans. - Mind and Body. Authorized Translation by Theodore Besterman.

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press, 1927. 1927. WITH A LETTER FROM THE TRANSLATOR TO THE PUBLISHER LAID IN - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black cloth titled in light green on the spine with a device in blind on the front cover. The covers are slightly soiled. The head and tail of the spine are bumped and the title slightly faded. 191 pages. There is minor creasing to the paper along the inner edge of the front pastedown. The text block is cracked opposite the half-title and there is some occasional minor foxing. Very good.

First American edition.

In his preface to this American edition, Hans Driesch writes: "This translation corresponds to the second and third edition of 'Leib und Seele'. A few paragraphs have been cancelled and a few additions have been made..I hope that this book may help - together with my "Crisis in Psychology' - to bring American Psychology, so well developed along experimental lines, upon a truly philosophical platform. For, if I may be allowed to vary a famous dictum of Kant: Philosophy without Psychology is bare and empty, Psychology without Philosophy is blind."

From the library of the publisher, Lincoln MacVeagh, with a warm autograph letter signed addressed to him from Theodore Besterman laid in. "How I wish I had telepathically discovered your identity in Delphi or Athens! To think that I had the Dial Press at my elbow as it were, and didn't know it!".

Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. After World War I he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value. Very good .

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