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THE death of Prof. A. E. Taylor in. the late autumn of 1945 at the age of seventy-five deprived these islands of an illustrious humanist and eminent scholar whose spirited vivacity in writing seemed never to tire; and not these islands only but Europe too, as his honorary membership of the Prussian Academy and of the Accademia dei Lincei partially attested before the War put an end, for the time being, to such graceful glimpses of European comity. Add to this Taylor's eminence as a moralist, his considerable success as a constructive metaphysician in early life and his later high reputation as a liberal defender of orthodox Christianity, and it is plain that the range and variety of his talents wag altogether amazing. He excelled in conversation; his letters were literature; and he was very kind.
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LAIRD, J. Prof. A. E. Taylor, F.B.A.. Nature 157, 186–187 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157186b0
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