Scottish Academic Press

FOREWORD In endowing in 1943 a short course of lectures, Sir Francis Fremantle, a Balliol man from 1891 to 1894, stipulated that the lectures should serve the purpose of making known 'the relation of Science to Christianity and the Christian life {a) in essence, {h) in its application to the...

Introduction With his penchant for startling dicta, Whitehead once defined European philosophical tradition as a series of footnotes to Plato. Whether this was the safest generalization to make on the topic is another matter, but it cannot be denied that the major themes of philosophy are as old...

ForewordThis work draws heavily on thick dossiers which the late Norbert Dufourcq kindly let me photocopy in full in 1985 and 1986. I have also greatly benefited from conversations with his niece, Mile Marie-Madeleine GaUet, who was equally generous in putting at my disposal very valuable...

INTRODUCTIONwhen ten years ago man stepped on the moon, even the sceptics must have sensed that the step was only the start of man's march into the realm of planets. An extraordinary realm, to be sure, which unlike things and processes on earth, appeared to man since ancient times as the realm of...