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Copyright 1940 by Mortimer J. Adler, renewed 1967 by Mortimer J. Adler Copyright © 1972 by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren www.SimonandSchuster.com All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form A Touchstone Book Published by Simon it Schuster, Inc. Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 TOUCHSTONE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon Schuster, Inc . ISBN-13: 978-0-671-21209-4 (pring) ISBN-10: 0-671-21209-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-439-14483-1 (eBook) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-81451 Designed by Edith Fowler Manufactured in the United States of America The excerpts from the biographies of Charles Darwin and J. S. Mill are reprinted from Great Books of the Western World, by permission of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. CONTENTS Preface PART ONE: THE DIMENSIONS OF READING 1. The Activity and Art of Reading Active Reading The Goals of Reading: Reading for Information and Reading for Understanding Reading as Learning: The Difference Between Learning by Instruction and Learning by Discovery Present and Abse......