The Meeting of East and West by F. S. C. Northrop. Macmillan. $6.00
Goethe and Newton once had a quarrel over the nature of color. The dispute was later settled by the realization that they were talking about different things―Goethe about something immediately sensed, Newton about the hypothetical conditions of its occurrence. Though Mr. Northrop does not cite this case or make the solution look so simple, his book describes a similar disagreement and remedy, the main disputants this time being West and East.
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