![]() ![]() He was continuing a tradition that goes right back to the magazine’s first editorial, which adopted a broad cultural stance: “We shall deal with all current political, social, religious, and intellectual questions. Snow’s lecture was based in part on an article he had written for the New Statesman in 1956. This missed the main point of Snow’s argument, which was that even if that were the prevailing view among the literati, it ought not to be. Public ignorance of basic science didn’t matter, but ignorance of Shakespeare did. The lecture provoked the prominent literary critic F R Leavis into responding that there was only one culture: his. In his 1959 Rede Lecture, the scientist and novelist C P Snow memorably deplored what he saw as a gulf between the two cultures of arts and sciences.
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