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MR. H. G. WELLS has done much to raise the prestige of science among the people. Here, at the age of seventy-four, he is still trying, with the intensest energy, to communicate to the generality of mankind the implications of science. In his latest book he has used the technique of the novel of ideas to represent the attitude of young people to current events, and suggest what line they should pursue in the light of modern psychology. The ideas of Pavlov and Freud are discussed at length through the dialogues of the characters, but though an impression of their importance is conveyed successfully, they are not very clearly explained.
Babes in the Darkling Wood
By H. G. Wells. Pp. 399. (London: Martin Secker and Warburg, Ltd., 1940.) 9s. 6d. net.
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CROWTHER, J. Babes in the Darkling Wood. Nature 146, 822 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146822a0
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