Leavis . and creativity Sir: I read the lecture by Dr
Leavis (July 19) with some difficulty. As a scientist I had hoped that the title might have Presaged some interesting comments, EMer cilia, on creativity as a vital aspect of of science. However, the only mention
science occurs in a sentence remarakablnd e for the imprecision of its language malting art assertion that is false, the falsity arising from an elementary ry ry
sion between science and technologY, Dr Leavis does go on so about LaWrence, but he fails to convince me
that ace, has not been grotesquely over-praised as a champion of humanity. The trouble is that though he revered the abstraction Life, he hated most human instances of it; the last quotation in the lecture says it all: . . done with him as with most people.' I think that to love an abstract Life is a poor substitute for loving the living, but perhaps this is just an inhuman, scientific view.
J. A. Nelder Cumberland Cottage, 33 Crown Street, Redbourn, St. Albans, Herts.
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