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THERE are two thinkers in England just now working on very similar lines, investigating the relations of science and art. Both are ‘emeritus’ professors, Lloyd Morgan of Bristol, Alexander of Manchester, and every reader of any of their publications on the subject must be struck’by the earnestness and pene tration of their work and the palpable and complete sincerity of their minds. It is much to be hoped that they will persevere and that Prof. Alexander, who has already several lectures and pamphlets on the subject to his credit, will soon be able to bring out the systematic volume which he has in mind. Prof. Lloyd Morgan gave two lectures at Bristol last November entitled “Science and Drama” (University of Bristol), which really deal with the same topic. He uses the term ‘drama’ in the widest possible sense in order to cover all forms of ‘agency,’ and while in the first he considers the question of ‘agency’ in respect of natural phenomena which are studied in science, in the second he examines in detail what Alexander has already said about the action of the mind in art, on the whole accepting it and adding certain ‘glosses’ of his own.
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News and Views. Nature 123, 577–581 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123577a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123577a0