STAPLEDON, OLAF. Conflict of Wisdoms, 1949. Typescript of the essay. With ALS to John Gawsworth
An annotated typescript for the essay "Conflict of Wisdoms," which appeared in John Gawsworth's Enquiry in August 1949. Cover page plus ten numbered pages; secured with brad fastener. With Gawsworth's annotation to cover page. Accompanied by short autograph letter signed from Stapledon to Gawsworth--the poet-King of the micronation Redonda--concerning Stapledon's return of this corrected proof.In this short comparative essay on mentalities, Stapledon differentiates ancient from modern (see "scientific") wisdoms; the latter being identified as originating in ancient Greece. "Each of these two wisdoms, these attitudes to the universe, contains important truths which the other ignores." The corrected proof contains a number of significant excisions, along with the insertion of numerous sub-headings, to further structure his argument towards synthesis.Accompanied by an obituary clipping, identifying Stapledon as "a writer of boldly speculative and scientific fantasies and a left-wing liberal thinker who in recent years had taken a prominent part in various Communist-organized international conferences of intellectuals."
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Property from the Collection of Ronald Kuntz, Sugar Grove, Illinois
