A PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE.

NZ Truth, Issue 889, 9 December 1922, Page 4

A PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE.

Tho name of Goorpo Sorel. who nan ju«t died In Paris, was quite familiar before thu war to the people who follow hotly upon the tracks of fashionable or freakish extromlam. Ho wroto aa a detached and Imaginative critic and guldo to tho left wins; of French trado unionism, which was continually combating th*» Parlinmentiiry reform - Ism of the Moderate SoclnllstH with the allurements of revolutionary Syndicalism. Sorol nttach«»d hl» (lamh'oy jtnt philosophy as un ri'T-Jltlonnl «»nj?lria to the Syndlciillrft acitatlon. nnd hln "Ucfk-ftioiis on VioU<nco" hurt sufficient power and novelty to mike hln rimnhrrv ho»«M-(»d by tho cultivators of queer political theory m more cotiiiirk'n than hid own. Hjs romanticism wan jfood nnoueh to *»cflUo thoHfi runnors aft«»r new things who found, or pretended to Jlnd. the apparent ficcurlty of tho world a vexation to vouthfnl nrt!>or. Hut. thoijjth his doctrine Is In years still very younc. the wnr hn» certainly blighted what nromlßo itffhnd. A jtrent-muon that rtoor* not m "act possess any knowlortan n( whnt n-IM happen' next Ih too tired of this Htnte to rejolco In the ulnrlnnn unccrtninty of economics. But If the world enn Rot back Into Us strlil» nmi t*<*U\o Itsolf once moro to the dlsclpilne of reifulur movement, damn Hljlrlts will rfdls^ovcr Sor^l. nnd un-derpi-aduatrH will r<*.id pftperx on his curious wntrlbutlon to our Kloolc of political Ideas.