BR TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 27 OCT. 1930
BRACERS 47001. TL(CAR). McMaster
Proofread by A. Duncan

27th Oct. 1930.1

Dear Norton,

Thank you very much for your letter of October 16th, and for the enclosures, conveying the humiliating intelligence that I lack the true mystical vision. You will be glad to hear that I am bearing up well under the blow.

It is a relief to know that I can have the whole winter for “The Meaning of Science”. I have not yet got a very clear idea in my head as to what the book will be. There is at the present time a terrific outburst of Godism among scientific men — Whitehead, Eddington, J.B. Haldane, General Smutts, etc. It drives me wild, as it is composed entirely of sophistry. I should like, in some part of the book, to show them up, but am doubtful whether I can do it in a sufficiently popular style, and also whether you would like the book to be such as all parsons will curse. The question is whether the book is to do good to you and me, or to the rest of the world. What do you think?

All best wishes,

Yours very sincerely,

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