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THE conclusions of the sciences, often used uncritically, help the author to build up a rather peculiar vision of the universe. Pleading for a revival of anthropomorphism and for a religion of humanism, he lets his mind roam from a justification of a modified emergent evolutionism to that of a generalised sun worship, the gap between the two being bridged by a novel conception of light as the link between logic and physics, mind and brain, the physical and the spiritual. The book, though very readable and interesting, is one link in that extraordinary chain of American works which points to the imminent birth of a new Western wisdom the esoteric meaning of which is understandable, at least at present, to a selected few.
Philosophy and the Concepts of Modern Science
By Prof. Oliver L. Reiser. Pp. xvii + 323. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1935.) 15s. net.
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G., T. [Short Notices]. Nature 137, 451 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137451d0
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