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47.
Clark,
Einstein, Op. cit.,
page 406; Ferris, Op. cit., page 44.

48.
Ferris, Op.
cit.,
page 45.

49.
Gribbin,
Companion to the Cosmos, Op. cit.,
pages 92–93.

50.
Christianson,
Op. cit.,
pages 157–160.

51.
Ibid.,
pages 189–195.

52.
Ferris, Op.
cit.,
page 45.

53.
Christianson,
Op. cit.,
pages 260–269.

54.
Thomas Hager,
Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling,
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995, page 217.

55.
Ibid.,
page 65.

56.
Ibid.,
page 113.

57.
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers,
A History of Chemistry,
translated by Deborah Dam, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996, pages 242ff.

58.
Hager,
Op. cit.,
pages 136.

59.
Bensaude-Vincent and Stengers, Op.
cit.,
pages 242–243. Hager, Op.
cit.,
page 136.

60.
Hager, Op.
cit.,
page 138.

61.
Ibid.,
page 148.

62.
Heider and London’s theory has become the subject of revisionist chemical history recently. See
for example, Bensaude-Vincent and Stengers, Op.
cit.,
page 243.

63.
Hager,
Op. cit.,
page 169.

64.
Ibid.,
page 171.

65.
Ibid.,
page 159.

66.
Many books published on chemistry in the 1930s make no reference to Heitler and London, or Pauling.

67.
Glyn Jones,
The Jet Pioneers,
London: Methuen, 1989, page 21.

68.
Ibid.,
pages 22–23.

69.
Ibid.,
page 24.

70.
Ibid.,
pages 27–28. British accounts of Whittle’s contributions are generally negligent, perhaps because he was so badly treated. In
Aviation, An Historical Survey from Its Origins to the End of World War II,
by Charles Gibbs-Smith, and published by HMSO in 1970, Whittle rates three references only and by the second he is an Air Commodore! H. Montgomery Hyde’s
British Air Policy Between the Wars 1918–1931,
London: Heinemann, 1976, 539pp, has one reference and one note on Whittle.

71.
Jones,
Op. cit.,
page 29.

72.
Ibid.,
page 36.

73.
John Allen Paulos,
Beyond Numeracy,
New York: Knopf, 1991, page 95.

74.
Ray Monk, Wittgenstein, Op. cit., page 295.

75.
Ibid.,
page 295
n.

76.
Ernst Nagel and James Newman, ‘Goedel’s Proof, in James Newman (editor),
The World of Mathematics
(volume 3, of 4), New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955, pages 1668–1695, especially page 1686.

77.
Newman,
Op. cit.,
page 1687.

78.
Paulos,
Op. cit.,
page 97.

79.
David Deutsch,
The Fabric of Reality,
London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1997, Penguin paperback, 1998, pages 236–237.

80.
Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh,
The Mathematical Experience,
London: The Harvester Press, 1981, page 319.

CHAPTER 16: CIVILISATIONS AND THEIR DISCONTENTS

1.
Civilisation and Its Discontents
is now published as volume XXI of the Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by James Strachey and Anna Freud, London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1953–74 (this volume was published in 1961). For details of Freud’s operation see Clark,
Freud, Op. cit.,
pages 444–445.

2.
Ibid.,
page 218.

3.
Ibid.,
pages 64ff.

4.
C. G. Jung,
Modern Man in Search of a Soul,
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1933.

5.
Ibid.,
pages 91ff.

6.
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl,
How Natives Think,
translated by L. A. Clare, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926, chapter II, pages 69ff.

7.
Henry Frankfort
et al., Before Philosophy,
London: Pelican, 1963, especially pages 103ff.

8.
J. A. C. Brown, Freud and the Post-Freudians, Op. cit., page 122.

9.
Ibid.,
pages 8, 125 and 128.

10.
Karen Homey,
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time,
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1937. See also: J. A. C. Brown, Op.
cit.,
page 135.

11.
Horney,
Op. cit.,
page 77.

12.
Brown, Op.
cit.,
page 137.

13.
Horney, Op.
cit.,
respectively chapters 8, 9, 10 and 12. Summarised in Brown,
Op. cit.,
pages 138—139.

14.
Horney,
Op. cit.,
pages 288ff.

15.
Brown, Op.
cit.,
pages 143–144.

16.
Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One’s Own,
London: Hogarth Press, 1929; Penguin paperback, 1993, with an Introduction by Michèle Barrett, page xii.

17.
Ibid.,
page 3.

18.
Barrett,
Op. cit.,
page xii.

19.
‘Aurora Leigh’ (a review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem of that name), in Michèle Barrett (editor).
Women and Writing,
London: Women’s Press, 1988; quoted in Barrett, Op.
cit.,
page xv.

20.
Ibid.,
page xvii.

21.
Ibid.,
page x.

22.
Jane Howard,
Margaret Mead: A Life,
London: Harvill, 1984, pages 53–54. For the latest scholarship, see: Hilary Lapsley,
Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women,
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. This book includes an assessment of Ruth Benedict by Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential anthropologists of the last quarter of a century (see chapter 38, ‘Local Knowledge’).

23.
Margaret Mead,
Blackberry Winter: My Early Years,
London: Angus & Robertson, 1973, page 139.

24.
G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relation to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, New York: Appleton, 1905, 2 vols. Quoted in Howard, Op. cit., page 68.

25.
Howard, Op.
cit.,
page 68.

26.
Mead, Op.
cit.,
page 150.

27.
Howard, Op.
cit.,
page 79.

28.
Ibid.,
page 52.

29.
Ibid.,
page 79.

30.
Ibid.,
pages 80–82.

31.
Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation, New York: William Morrow, 1928.

32.
Howard, Op.
cit.,
page 86.

33.
Ibid.

34.
Ibid.,
page 127.

35.
Quoted in
ibid.,
page 121.

36.
Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, page 197.

37.
Ibid.,
page 205.

38.
Ibid.,
page 148.

39.
Howard, Op.
cit.,
page 162.

40.
Ruth Benedict,
Patterns of Culture,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.

41.
Ibid.,
page 59.

42.
Ibid.,
page 69.

43.
Ibid.,
page 131.

44.
Judith Modell, Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life,
London: Chatto & Windus, 1984, page 201.

45.
Ibid.,
page 205.

46.
Ibid.,
pages 206–207.

47.
Margaret Caffrey,
Ruth Benedict: Stranger in this Land,
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989, pages 211ff, for a discussion of Ruth Benedict’s impact on American thought more generally.

48.
Margaret Mead,
Ruth Benedict,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1974, which
does
attempt to recover some of the earlier excitement.

49.
Howard, Op
cit.,
page 212.

50.
Martin Bulmer,
The Chicago School of Sociology,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, paperback edition, 1986, pages 1–2.

51.
Ibid.,
pages 4–8, but see also chapters 4 and 5.

52.
Charles S. Johnson,
The Negro in American Civilisation,
London: Constable, 1931.

53.
Bulmer, Op.
cit.,
pages 64–65.

54.
Johnson, Op.
cit.,
pages 229ff.

55.
Ibid.,
page 463.

56.
Ibid.,
pages 179ff.

57.
Ibid.,
page 199.

58.
Ibid.,
page 311.

59.
Ibid.,
page 463.

60.
Ibid.,
pages 475ff.

61.
David Minter,
William Faulkner: His Life and Work,
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, pages 72–73.

62.
The demands made on Faulkner himself may be seen from the fact that after he had finished a chapter, he would turn to something quite different for a while – short stories for example. See: Joseph Blotner,
Selected Letters of William Faulkner,
London: The Scolar Press, 1955, page 92.

63.
Ursula Brumm, ‘William Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance,’ in Marcus Cunliffe (editor),
The Penguin History of Literature: American Literature since 1900,
London: Sphere Books, 1975; Penguin paperback revised edition, 1993, pages 182–183 and 189.

64.
Ibid.,
page 195.

65.
Minter, Op.
cit.,
pages 153–160.

66.
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, London: Michael Joseph, 1994, page 192.

67.
T. R. Fyvel,
George Orwell: A Personal Memoir,
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, page 21.

68.
George Orwell,
The Road to Wigan Pier,
London: Gollancz, 1937, page 138; New York: Harcourt, 1958. Michael Shelden,
Orwell: The Authorised Biography,
London: Heinemann, 1991, page 128.

69.
Fyvel, Op.
cit.,
page 39.

70.
Shelden,
Op. cit.,
page 129.

71.
Ibid.

72.
Ibid.,
page 132.

73.
Ibid.,
pages 132–133.

74.
Ibid.,
page 134.

75.
Fyvel,
Op. cit.,
page 45.

76.
Shelden,
Op. cit.,
page 135.

77.
Fyvel, Op.
cit.,
page 44.

78.
Shelden, Op.
cit.,
pages 173–174.

79.
Ibid.,
page 180.

80.
Ibid.,
page 239.

81.
Ibid.,
page 244.

82.
Ibid.,
page 245.

83.
Ibid.

84.
Fyvel, Op.
cit.,
page 64.

85.
Shelden, Op.
cit.,
page 248.

86.
Ibid.,
page 250.

87.
Ibid.,
page 256.

88.
Fyvel, Op.
cit.,
pages 65–66.

89.
Lewis Mumford,
Technics and Civilisation,
London: George Routledge, 1934.

90.
Ibid.,
pages 107ff.

91.
For an introduction, see also the excerpt in Lewis Mumford,
My Works and Days: A Personal Chronicle,
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. pages 197–199.

92.
Mumford, Technics and Civilisation, Op. cit., pages 400ff.

93.
Ibid.,
page 333.

94.
Lewis Mumford,
The Culture of Cities,
London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1938.

95.
Ibid.,
pages 100ff.

96.
Ibid.,
chapter IV, pages
223ff.

97.
Ernest William Barnes,
Scientific Theory and Religion,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.

98.
Ibid.,
lectures XIII (pages 434ff), XIV (pages 459ff) and XV (pages 504ff).

99.
Ibid.,
lecture XX (pages 636ff).

100.
William Ralph Inge,
God and the Astronomers,
London and New York: Longmans Green, 1933.

101.
Ibid.,
pages 19ff.

102.
Ibid.,
page 107.

103.
Ibid.,
pages 140ff.

104.
Ibid.,
pages 254–256.

105.
Bertrand Russell,
Religion and Science,
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1935.

106.
Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell, Op. cit., page 244.

107.
Ibid.,
page 245.

108.
Russell, Op.
cit.,
chapters IV and VII.

109.
Ibid.,
pages 236ff.

110.
Ibid.,
page 237.

111.
Ibid.,
page 243.

112.
José Ortega Y Gasset, ‘The Barbarism of “Specialisation”,’ from
The Revolt of the Masses,
New York and London: W. W. Norton and George Allen & Unwin, 1932, quoted in John Carey,
The Intellectuals and the Masses,
London and Boston: Faber & Faber, 1992, pages 17–18.

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