Thinkers Lodge Library: Books Cyrus Eaton Wanted to Include in Library
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This summer, we were able to acquire four book cases and set them up in the hallway above the entrance and in the bedroom above Anne Eaton's room. Then we carted all the books that had been stored in the basement and shelf them. The next step is to organize them. A few years back two librarians helped Cathy Eaton sort them and bring up ones we deemed more important.
The above list are from lists Cyrus Eaton made of books that he felt should be housed in Thinkers Lodge. I suspect many of these were duplicates of ones that his library at Acadia Farms contained. I suspect Cyrus Eaton, a voracious reader, had read many of them. I suspect that paying attention to these authors and books will provide some insights into Eaton's mind and his appetite to learn in many disciplines. Cathy Eaton
Some of the authors are Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Schweitzer, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, Max Otto, Erich Fromm, Sigmund Freud, John-Paul Sartre, R. C. Churchill, Walter Lippman, Walt Whitman, Plato, Henry DeWolf, Plutarch, Erasmus, Rabelaix, Montaigne, Bacon, Gulliver's Travels, Candide, Cicero, History of Western Philosophy, Goethe, Gibbons, Oxford Book of English Verse, Simone de Beauvoir, Walden by Thoreau, Proust, Emerson, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Chamberlain, Jawaharlail Nehru, The Education of Henry Adams, Thomas Paine, Bacon, John Locke, Dante, David Hume, ...
The above list are from lists Cyrus Eaton made of books that he felt should be housed in Thinkers Lodge. I suspect many of these were duplicates of ones that his library at Acadia Farms contained. I suspect Cyrus Eaton, a voracious reader, had read many of them. I suspect that paying attention to these authors and books will provide some insights into Eaton's mind and his appetite to learn in many disciplines. Cathy Eaton
Some of the authors are Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Schweitzer, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, Max Otto, Erich Fromm, Sigmund Freud, John-Paul Sartre, R. C. Churchill, Walter Lippman, Walt Whitman, Plato, Henry DeWolf, Plutarch, Erasmus, Rabelaix, Montaigne, Bacon, Gulliver's Travels, Candide, Cicero, History of Western Philosophy, Goethe, Gibbons, Oxford Book of English Verse, Simone de Beauvoir, Walden by Thoreau, Proust, Emerson, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Chamberlain, Jawaharlail Nehru, The Education of Henry Adams, Thomas Paine, Bacon, John Locke, Dante, David Hume, ...