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IT is becoming clear that, among its other characteristics, the present intellectual barometer, especially in the United States, is set for 'change' rather than for 'fair'. Supercharged clouds are racing across the horizon, and it would not, one imagines, take a great deal to bring the whole thing down in a deluge. The mental image produced by this book is of that kind. A storm is a grand sight, and the pages before us contain grand thoughts. Of that there can be no doubt; and what they have to say is something like this. Classical philosophy was static in ideal and timeless in form. We call it 'taking long views'. The breakaway to a species of romanticism, mixed with more than a trace of the empirical, has produced a clarion call for progress, movement and intuition, with short shrift for analysis. Briefly, then, 'short views', or relatively so.
Power and Events
An Essay on Dynamics in Philosophy. By Andrew Paul Ushenko. Pp. xxiii + 301. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press ; London : Oxford University Press, 1946.) 30s. net.
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RAWLINS, F. Power and Events. Nature 159, 861 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159861a0
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