Note 10 — THREE: BOOKS (continued 2)

We have in America a logician who, obscurely and unaided, is working out the fundamental problem of the dualistic languages of modern culture, and who is relating them into a logic of the Whole. His name is Scudder Klyce and he resides in Winchester, Massachusetts. He has published three books: “Universe,” “Sins of Science,” “Dewey’s Suppressed Psychology.” In the first (which I have not yet read), he attempts to establish continuity, or the Whole, in purely empirical terms and to construct a logic to express it. In the second, he exposes (often brilliantly and at times wildly) the contradictory dualisms in modern thought. The third volume, as invaluable as it is unwieldy, reveals the failure of John Dewey to carry his own “infinite pluralism” to its logical conclusion: an explicit philosophy of the Whole.... So it goes in our America. Just as one is getting ready to despair of the current tendencies, along comes a man like Klyce who is doing work as essential and great as any I know in the contemporary world. I was not aware of Klyce when I wrote “The Re-Discovery of America.” That is my excuse for not mentioning his contribution and its organic part in what I call the Great American Tradition.

P.S. Since the writing of this note, Scudder Klyce has died. The first work to acknowledge the greatness of his contribution has yet to be published. But it will come!