Abstract
FREDERICK ENGELS died in 1895, one year before Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and the enormous flowering of physical and chemical knowledge that followed from it. Science to-day is very different from what it was in his time, and the appearance for the first time in English of his main theoretical work, “Dialectics of Nature”, may seem a matter only of historical curiosity. We might wonder, indeed, why at this late date it is worth bringing to light at all instead of relegating it to the forgetfulness that has fallen on the theoretical works of even the greatest of the Victorians.
Dialectics of Nature
Frederick Engels. Translated and edited by Clemens Dutt. Pp. xvi + 383. (London: Lawrence and Wishart, Ltd., 1940.) 15s. net.
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BERNAL, J. Dialectics of Nature. Nature 147, 187–189 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147187a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147187a0
