Abstract
The remarkable thing about this little book is that it has, in fact, been written. It is almost inconceivable that such would have been the case a few decades ago. The setting is a duologue between a man of science and Mr. X: the latter, by the way, is the late Sir Arthur Eddington's friend who knew what matter was. In a very nicely adjusted game of cut and thrust (much more charitable than usual) the crucial issue of materialism versus axiological precept is faced anew. The result is not altogether likely to convince where conviction is undesired (indeed there is little ‘compulsion’ anywhere), but the upshot is nevertheless indicative of humility, and therefore perhaps of progress towards a solution, or a partial solution, of mankind's greatest and deepest needs.
Science and Reality
By T. Bedford Franklin. Pp. vi + 56. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1947.) 3s. 6d. net.
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RAWLINS, F. Science and Reality. Nature 160, 349 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160349c0
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