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Science and the Classics

Nature volume 191, pages 1337–1342 (1961)Cite this article

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  1. This and other quotations from Schweitzer are from his Philosophy of Civilization, Parts 1 and 2 (A. C. Black, 1923 and 1946).

  2. Science in Antiquity (Home University Library, Oxford University press).

  3. For this quotation and that which soon follows from Paul Radin, see Coomaraswamy, A. K., The Bugbear of Literacy (Dobson, 1947), where there is much supporting material.

  4. For the Hellenistic origin of personal astrology see Neugebauer, O., The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, 163 (Oxford University Press, 1951). A recent work, Hadas, Moses, Humanism (Allen and Unwin, 1961), brilliantly illustrates the character of Greek culture before it succumbed to astrology. Cumont, Franz, Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans (Dover Publications) is the classic analysis of the victory of astrology, a process oversimplified in my brief account.

  5. For Montaigne see the end of the essay on Cruelty; for Palissy various reflexions on animal intelligence quoted in Morley, Henry, Palissy the Potter, 2 (1855); for Richeome, H. Brémond's Hist. Lit. du Sentiment religieux en France, 1.

  6. Lionel Trilling's essay in The Liberal Imagination (Mercury Books, 1961) on the Kinsey Report has influenced me.

  7. Bergson's unintentional distortion of the historical reality is examined by Loisy, Y A-t-il deux Sources de la Religion et de la Morale ?

  8. Ashby, Sir Eric, Technology and the Academics (Macmillan and Co., Ltd.).

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