The Inner Not-self
Books in Review The Inner Not-self Review by ISA KAPP TIME MUST HA VW A STOP lkiiwM| Harper A Itroe. 1944. Stl V*—*- ».75. UNTIL mm Huxley haa bttn awprasing compucatt d pattern* up«a hie...
...Despite thee* minor shortcomings the reviewer would recommend thw job of Professse Faulkner and Mark Starr as a sound and useful piste of work, and one that will fill a longfelt need...
...ffusaase Barnack, middle-aged esthete and voluptuary, is the lost soul in extreme...
...THE author of these memories waa a public servant under th* Weimar Republic and occupied a strategic position foe > observation of . developments and personalities...
...A Great New American Writer Review by ALICE DEAL PARSONS THE GOLDEN BOWL...
...The Hero reforms through Contact with a "serene presence...
...For this reason, Huxley introduces the satiric portrait of Paul DO Vries, theoretical celibate and spiritualist, who can talk passionately of the social vs...
...Silone's fictional taint is a human* and reasonable person...
...By Harold U. Faulkner and Mark' Starr...
...Meyer achieved this difficult compromise...
...UNTIL mm Huxley haa bttn awprasing compucatt d pattern* up«a hie diagnosis at sssisi *a*» aniiiai iitoiiitssjiel iaui fat Tana Jfwf Have a Stup ha- a earn a to...
...The clarity of Huxley's formulations in such a book at End* and if eon* suggests that hi* refusal to speak ia political term* in this novel to a conscious and principled limitation rather than an intellectual blind-spot Since the inadequacy of his ethics for those concerned with social reorganization is immediately apparent, perhaps only an interpretive comment it in place...
...He imagines that this concept explains bow Sebastian could have been so unsuccessful in all his relationship* and nevertheless become a model mystic...
...The account of the love affair, while it is intended to create a sens* ef insufficiency, gpe* so far in ita negations thai it fails to involve either the reader's states aa his feelings...
...Although profeseienally connected with an employers' organisation, Dr...
...Sebastian'* conversion ia too suddenly introduced and too fragments rily explained...
...While many general and specialised studies on labor ace availabls, high school students fend general readers may find much of the literature "heavy going...
...There is suggestive irony in Huxley's choice of a non philistine character with many of his own judgments as a symbol of corruption...
...He wee attorney foD the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Berlin City Council, * Reichstag deputy for the Democratic Party ¦ (middle class liberals), anakfos a time Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior...
...Hia character (ketone* of letting paresaalitiss in German putter life anew a rare ability to judge human nature, and an incorruptible impartiality...
...Meyer gives th* tint convincing explanation of thw difficult iet which...
...While student* msy find: much that is familiar, the- su> thors havo made a contribution in their simple and direct handling of the ma* teriaie...
...This is magnificent writing, with never a false note or a purple patch...
...Here is the story of the vast faa»i>i*iiiia ef Nadus* to man's often ill eoneeived and ft—th efforts to com* to aims w i th he...
...Hera the essence of purity is something demonstrable rather than teachable...
...Meyer fully realized the importance of organised labor aa the strongest pillar of the German republic...
...Conceivably, the procT ess is one of intuition, but for the purposes of the novel, it should have been given substance...
...The memorial are fall of highly interesting material...
...It is striking that.in one of the moat difficult problems with which his philosophy must come to grips, its ability to persuade, Huxley should become wordless...
...excellently fills the need for a short, thorough and readable teat In eleven chapter*, the authors sum up the history of the labor movement, and deal with many of the problems confronting labor...
...It might have been better to have dealt with those issues more directly...
...TU ».** Pi lb lis* ?*, SI...
...If one find* the supecnaturaliam repugnant, it is possible to discard the framework, and read the episode not literally, at life after death, but symbol it-ally, aa the functioning of aa isolated mind in the moment ef complete concentration...
...New Kind of Labor Textbook Review by PHILIP TAFT LABOR Iff AMERICA...
...Labor in Aymmrvea...
...The final coav pronrise was drafted by myself...
...towers at spruce loomed over hint...
...His excellent personal relation* with Social-Democratic leaders—he waa a dose friend of Rudolph HiUerding, the keenest mind among German SoctelDwmocrats in th* Weimar period—helped him to fill this important role...
...whoa* father...
...prevented a mora complete replacement of conservative public official* by true rspubeVant...
...Hit deserved reputation as a staunch defender of democracy made him an effective liaison man between the small progressive wing of German business and the working class...
...farm had been engulfed in the dust, had tramped the roada for bur years without being able to find a settled job...
...By Osear Meyer...
...12 50...
...Ha is so dependent upon pleasure of the senses that even in Eternity he clutches at a painful glob of memory that assures hia separateness and protects hint from the magnetic tranquillity of the Infinite...
...Maury Grant, the hindlettiaT...
...The true mystics deprecate their occasional tempttitions into didacticism...
...Th* reader would be grateful for being take* into the secret of how Dr...
...te *av* the Moiler cabinet, th* last ministry under SochW-Democrstic leadership...
...H* cowered tin nth th* shadows ef th* lisgsy beneath th* horror ef unshaped matter, beneath th* titanic and iron etossisatoar of a ripped sad dietainted earth that waa hat feebly tsweasd hp a forest...
...These ia a certain amount ef similarity between the structure of the book and the mechanieal contrivance of» Sebastian's poetry at the beginning of the narrative...
...A comparison of Huxley and Silon* suggests itself because of their common concern with the saintly individual, Huxley believes that one must love the entire universe, and rejects the love of particular beings aa an obstacle...
...Countet posed to Eustace is the automaton socialist who denies himself pleasure, but fails because of his rigid and indiscriminste adherence to a mechanistic philosophy whoa* final issue is spleen, disappointment and deformity of spirit Since Eyelee* in Gaza and After Many m Summer Die* the Swan, Huxley has mad* a alight shift in his conception of salhUliisa...
...The record of the general labor movement on racketeering and internal democracy needs no apologies, but the few bad spots cannot b* defended...
...Silone understands that love in all its forma is a useful, resuscitating force: he wants contact with God in order to transform life...
...Meyer was the co-author—together with Br tin tog, the later chancellor of a proposal by which the two leaders tried to 1*3...
...Huxley's spokesman tella the poet-hero: "There's only ana saWtiaW if ilMenliiae aaai Mlao . . . til* —¦ iflna at -—-—— rodemptive iserlneo .. . the smrifics- of •elf will to make room for the knowledge of Coodi . . . find out how to become your inner not-aelf in God while reinain h«C your outer self in the world...
...AMAJOR American writing talent make* it* appearance isa than abort, poignant novel...
...We read, for instance, that in an exceedingly critical situation in Berlin, 1920—after 'the failure of the so-called Kapp revolt— Dr...
...It would appear that the cultured are moat responsible for society's salvation, for they should be able to grasp the potentialities of the ascetic life...
...fictional,ration of Gerald Heard's them* that the modem epoch haa ds»tras*d haaith atvl haiawca with jt» fereriah individualMaa I III In ltgJ*W»lld only thruugh complete annihiUtion of hia ego drivea in a mystical union of the indhridual with the universal...
...Huxley's is the shadow of an idea...
...th* grey walla bitten through with fight For people turned their heads this night from store to Iansa aad neither saw aax felt the stone between...
...When Maury ia jet-hunting in the aaaiuts hi mining- savantry, he rests beside th* tenia...
...The record of Eustace's nebulous struggles to retain his earthly identity and escape Nirvana after hia death, in the second section, seems bo me to be the more original and moving preoccupation ef the book...
...The phrasing of both is ingenious and brilliant, yet it ia difficult to perceive any total emotion or intention...
...Perhaps the quickest way to dssnwiee Fstaaaia* sins to to say that it haa ail the simple precision of Ernie Pjle at hia best, united to the furious imagination ef the poet...
...Whan the dutt storm rages, you are there with your eyes blinded and your lung* corroded...
...THf HEARTH THAT H1LD THf I COUNTRT FIR I It 1 PLUCKED a firs front the hill side's farm, carried ft tenderf>—H aright have been • child brought it to town to throb between the Dali and the thin spoon Sowers, nurtured it with little paper tongues, taontains of unwiitiug, dock-ticking hours of thought words still unsaid, weeks of sickly hoarded Sundays— | th* rndto* ef th* rsris aad poor— Jed it with drafta of else* wsehed WJBs*saBPl1ssWaaBwa9Wea* awlT, aaw it at hast k*a> est to ita cetuaneThea beet I kaowledge that from the cam* swaatosg ft****, and the chill smite* fsiisd sad the great height* were small...
...Again at the end, the plot grows unsatisfying...
...Friedrich Kramta, New York, 104,4, 238 page...
...the individual man but i* incapable of subduing Ms own ego...
...Meyer's activities which he haa treated too briefly in the German original...
...Nothing is gained by trying to "explain away" several of the ills affecting a number of organizations of labor and ignoring others, even though the ILGWTJ ia free from many such ills...
...Tn view of hia ideal of a decentralized society that practices group myticism, it is understandable that the winning of the war or the accomplishment of a specific economic reform must be both incidental to his goal and hostile to hia techniques...
...He ten-ely assntttns hit part to aba* highly sispsstoist if aasueessful stFinally, while Americana may understand and appreciate Dr...
...harf-starved Maura fbnally, and by fortune 1* almost more than the reader can bear...
...SI.no...
...Here is •vary man's struggle to be free, and his stenteal asscweery the* he can be free easy by accepting bondage to has beset not ostitis...
...Tow MUST HAW A STOP has beast arbitrarily divided in two: section, one tow wit and sensuality, section two far intuition and idea...
...But this English version should give more information on setae of Dr...
...Wltsw the koag weades mt...
...As unerringly as Elizabeth Madox Roberts traversed the whole range of human emotions in her Kentucky poor-white woman, Ellen Chester, without ewer exceeding the limits of Ellen's experience, Peikema shows as the dust-bowl tragedy through hie bindlestiff Maury, striving to maintain hia freedom, is inexorably drawn back to the galling necessities of the Thor family by those thing* to them that moat seduce hia sour—their leva of the land, their courage hi thw face ef calamity, their love of home sad* independence...
...Ffaacat Keaa* The Weimar Republic Review by CARL ZANDANER VON BISMARCK ZU HITLEM...
...By Feik, Ptihrnm...
...221 p*y...
...The drat ssttion fall* fat short at An*w Sag and foes* Counter Point, and the best part ef the writing is outside of dialogue...
...Meyer took part in the negotiations between the Prussian State Administrttion and the excited workers who demanded strong measures against the counterrevolutionaries...
...That Se*V hwhers m*d*atig state that Ft the—'a supple prose at times reaches peetie heights, a fat poetic throughout, ha the sense that a pea** mind broods ever the whole story ef a valiant, obstinate Norwegian family caught hi the tTSgwey of the dust bowl in the early 'SO'*, aaai ad ta« hiadleatlff who struggles a* toaw* what seems to him their hopeless plight...
...Through his eyes Keikema shows ap the once-lovely land dying under the scourge of drought and winds...
...Huxley wants to restrict life in order to achieve identification with infinity...
...2.75...
...Harper A Brother: 1944...
...The publisher ought to be persuaded to arrange far aa edition in English at the earliest possible time...
...fuses Celt that he must work out » tarn subtle dichotomy of miud and matter, that novel ia a bar...
...Meyer's reluctance to speak shout public life in th* United gtatsa what* ha ha* been being a* a refuge* immigrant sines 1H1 —they wosdd be interested ta knew hi* thoughts aa thw sissiistiu ilin of Europa...
...Beet yen* masses tad ia A tsar wen literature should read this book, a classic that haa cosse modestly among us...
...While the authors deserve praise for an effective job, it is the opinion of the reviewer that the book might have gained in effectiveness if .they hsd adopted n more critical tone toward' a number of internal union problems...
...That ia Suadey't doctrine of ideal behavior, and the book's purpoae is to explore the typee of failure that aria* front the violation of such an> ethie...
...Magpies screamed owerfaeeaV How frozen and iwsssbile were those once volcanic pasaiona and furies of the earth, in which i—ght Tigflfn a Tnstanif pp rjttritgia*i gisgaanrg at tesaitaj spur*, toe rohichrag asnaarg heaaor, and sky, country 11" ¦" Im swatT^rtBsg'vitto^ttat y% Kirstew, who to ivtsstosMy to draw bias back from the eases, si asaaaie tor a* sasstass* ef thw easreantieaal girl-boy etopteagv and Jet the faedasststat etoatiasss it sassawa...
...Dark, rusty cliffs tagged hp...
Vol. 28 • March 1945 • No. 10
