Author, philosopher, and hero worshiper in the Carlylean sense, LUCIEIV PRICE is a Bostonian who over the years has held a special veneration for Remain Holland, Jean Sibelius, Gilbert Murray, Sir Richard Livingstone, and Alfred North Whitehead. In two of his boohs, We Northmen and Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, he has paid tribute to this celebrated quintet. Now in the essay which follows he sends our birthday greetings to the greatest of the living classicists.
Philosopher, author, and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead was born in England in 1861, taught long, full years at Cambridge University and at the University of London, and brought his career to a golden sunset at Harvard. He was one of the most illuminating conversationalists of our time. After his retirement, the world still wore a path to his door, and one of his frequent visitors was LUCIEN PRICE.Mr. Price, the author of We Northmen and Winged Sandals, has recorded with the discipline and accuracy of a trained journalist the audacity and the probing of the philosopher’s mind in his new book, Dialogues of Whitehead, which is appearing under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint. His record of the conversations was read and authorized by Whitehead.
Philosopher, author, and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead was born in England in 1861, taught long, full years at Cambridge University and at the University of London, and brought his career to a golden sunset at Harvard. He was one of the most illuminating conversationalists of our time. After his retirement, the world still wore a path to his door, and one of his frequent visitors was LUCIEN PRICE.Mr. Price, the author of We Northmen and Winged Sandals, has recorded with the discipline and accuracy of a trained journalist the audacity and the probing of the philosopher’s mind in his new book, Dialogues of Whitehead, which is shortly to be published. His record of the conversations was read and authorized by Whitehead.
Philosopher, author, and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead was born in England in 1861, taught long, full years at Cambridge University and at the University of London, and brought his career to a golden sunset at Harvard. He was one of the most illuminating conversationalists of our time. After his retirement, his talk was confined to a few intimates, of whom LUCIEN PRICE was one. Mr. Price, the author of We Northmen and Winged Sandals, has recorded with the discipline and accuracy of a trained journalist the audacity and the probing of the philosopher’s mind in his new book, Dialogues of Whitehead, which is shortly to be published. His record of the conversations was read and authorized by Whitehead. The Atlantic is proud to present three characteristic excerpts from this book, which has been more than a decade in preparation.
Essayist and humanist, LUCIEN PRICE is the author of We Northmen, Winged Sandals, and Litany for All Souls, and an editorial writer for the Boston Globe whose thinking has been vital to New England for three decades. Loyal readers of the Atlantic will remember “Olympians in Homespun” (1926) and “Hardscrabble Hellas” (1927), two idyls in lyric prose of life in the Western Reserve of Ohio.