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PROF. MULLER, who is a professor of English, is perturbed at the incoherence and lack of standards in modern literature and modern life; as well he may be. He here expounds and criticizes (with good knowledge, sound sense and a pretty wit) many recent scientific theories in all branches, apparently because he thinks a better knowledge of them would improve literary standards. It is almost as though he thought “Macbeth” would be improved by substituting three psycho-analysts for the witches, or “Paradise Lost” by introducing Einstein's theory and the expanding universe.
Science and Criticism
The Humanistic Tradition in Contemporary Thought. By Herbert J. Muller. (Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation: Lectures on Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy.) Pp. xiv + 303. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1943.) 25s. net.
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RITCHIE, A. Science and Criticism. Nature 154, 475 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154475a0
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