Towards a Third Culture by Charles Davy

The "two cultures"—the old arts culture and the new scientific culture—is treated here in relation to the evolution of consciousness. How has the modern scientific mentality, detached and analytic, developed from earlier modes of thought, and how is it likely to influence human life in the future? Charles Davy traces the emergence in Europe of the "onlooker" mode, in contrast to the older "participating" consciousness. The Romantic reaction against Newtonian science illustrates the beginning of conflict between two cultures. 

The modern scientific outlook is compared wi6th the Goethean approach to nature, and the author suggests some direction sof change which could lead beyond the "two cultures" toward a "third culture," in which science, art and religion would find a common C

Charles Davy was born 8in Devonshire in 1897; during part of the First World War he drove an ambulance with the French Army. Afterwards he went to Oxford and London universities, then into journalism. He was a joint editor of the Golden Blade from 1946-1977.