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The third chapter discusses die relative advantages ofclassical (i.e., Greek grammar, etc.) and scientific education and presents arguments in favor ofdie former: "Thus, we may say in favour ofclassical education diat it is always a good dring to know the roots, even ifthey may not always be of practical use" (p. 52). However, by die end of die chapter (p. 67) die audior comes to die conclusion: "It does not matter whedier we prefer a classical or a scientific education. What alone matters is our unshakable faidi in die West." The remaining 115 pages ofdie text contain a masterful selection ofquotations from Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Oswald, De Broglie, and others which are supposed to illustrate die ideas ofdie author expressed in die first 67 pages. G. GAMOW University ofColorado The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882. Edited, with Appendix and notes, by his granddaughter Nora Barlow. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1959. Pp. 253. $4.50. Darwin's autobiography was written mainly in 1876, six years before his death, with additional material inserted during his last yean. When first published in 1887, as part ofthe Life and Letters ofCharles Darwin, edited by his son Francis, it appeared with many omissions that his family deemed necessary for various reasons. In this present edition his granddaughter has restored all the omitted material and has also included an enlightening discussion of Darwin's relationship and indebtedness to his grandfadier Erasmus, whose intellectual influence was apparently far greater than Charles Darwin himself was able or willing to recognize. The book also contains over fifty pages of material relating to the controversy between Samuel Buder and Darwin, a one-sided, unwarranted, and now tedious attack which Darwin and his family were wise to ignore. The book has, of course, a twofold interest: as an autobiography and for the new material now included. The Autobiography itself is already well known, having been reprinted as late as 1929, and as such it is a short, straightforward account of Darwin's life as seen by him when approaching die age ofseventy, describing in succession something of his childhood, school days, his abbreviated stay at Cambridge, die "Beagle" voyage, and his later years in London and at his country home at Down. It is interesting enough, particularly for anyone unacquainted with the Darwin story, and it does introduce die main characters in his professional and domestic life. The narrative gains from the new material, quite apart from the light it throws on die curiously Victorian sensitivity of the Darwin family to any personal comment by Charles about his parents, sisters, or colleagues, for it isjust diese comments which show him to be thoroughly human, although many are appreciative and none is unkind. In particular, he shows a warmdi and undentanding of his country-doctor fadier and presents a rather vivid picture of a small, motherless boy growing up surrounded by overwatchful older sisters. He also shows,in this previously deleted text, howhe gradually progressed from a strictly orthodox religious upbringing through a natural questioning 159 period in early manhood to a simple and perhaps even doubtful beliefin die concept ofthe one God, not even sure that beliefin a deity was fundamentally different from die anthropoids' innate fear of snakes! Darwin does emerge more completely in this Autobiography than in the earlier editions, but Charles as a person comes dirough as much more lively and delightful in his account ofthe "Beagle" voyage written many years before— not the "Journal" ofthe voyage, which is somewhat stodgy, but the "Diary," written freshly from day to day by a young man with a roving eye, and first published a century after it was written. N. J. Berrill McGiIl University Mind, Matter, and Morals. By Arthur E. Meyer, New York: American Press, 1957. Pp. 192. $3.50. Mind, Matter, and Morals by Arthur E. Meyer is an interesting demonstration of the ability ofdie human brain to peer intently at itself. This is a biologist's brain, and it sees cells and synapses as the matter which makes possible mind and morals. At no point in his philosophy does Dr. Meyer relax his insistence on die use ofthe scientific mediod in resolving die problems of...

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