Abstract
THE modern mechanist—the ‘publicist’, to adopt the term used by Prof. Hogben, who contributes an introduction to this book—has never claimed that all the activities of living matter are to-day capable of being ‘explained’ on physico-chemical lines, or even that they ever will be. But he does hold it to be possible, and even likely, that the behaviour of living organisms will one day be describable in the same terms, by means of the same symbols, and in the light of the same laws as are available to describe the phenomena of the inorganic world.
The Physiology of Beauty.
By Arthur Sewell. Pp. xiv + 194. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1931.) 8s. 6d. net.
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B., A. The Physiology of Beauty . Nature 129, 419–420 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129419b0
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