The Original Title of Permanence and Change

The Original Title of Permanence and Change

In that spirit I wrote a tract, Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose, which was "such a book as authors in those days sometimes put together, to keep themselves from falling apart." Since I was in a con- siderable motivational quandary, my book was on the subject of motivation. Thus fittingly, its original title was Treatise on Communication; but I changed the title at the request of the publisher, who felt that it sounded too much as though the book were a "house organ."

From COMMUNICATION AND THE HUMAN CONDITION edited by Lee Thayer