Volume 19, Number 6 · October 19, 1972
Single Mind, Double Bind
By D.W. Harding
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
by Gregory Bateson
Ballantine, 517 pp., $1.95 (paper)
This collection of previously published essays and lectures amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. Such a suggestion would not disturb a scientist who is not fully satisfied by 'the general trend of scientific philosophy associated with such names as Democritus, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, and Darwin' and who now advocates a serious look at 'the less respectable views of such men as Heraclitus, the alchemists, William Blake, Lamarck, and Samuel Butler.' For these latter,
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