'Vast in its intellectual scope, it should induce not so much sleep as
controversy, whether literary or scientific, philosophical or political.
It skims the oceans of academe in a manner accessible to the educated
public, informed and cogently argued, stylistically dense...' - Sandra
Goldbeck-Wood, British Medical Journal `Tallis can, and frequently
does, write extremely well. He also writes with considerable
passion...Raymond Tallis, is perhaps best seen as an exceptionally
interesting and broad-minded heir to Huxley, preaching the cause of the
Church Scientific.' - Richard Webster, Times Literary Supplement Reviews
of Not Saussure and The Explicit Animal: Not Saussure - 'I greatly
enjoyed it...' - Bernard Bergonzi 'The Explicit Animal - '...his books
are genuine contributions to professional debate...' - Stephen R.L.
Clarke, Times Literary Supplement Newton's Sleep examines the
complementary roles of science and art in human life. Science has been
criticised for being at best useful but spiritually derelict, and art
for attempting to answer the spiritual needs of humankind while ignoring
the material needs of millions who live in want. Newton's Sleep deals
with the charges that science is spiritually empty and that art fails in
its civilising mission by relating these aspects of human culture to the
physical and metaphysical hungers of an explicit animal who lives in
both the Kingdom of Means and the Kingdom of Ends. 'Tallis can, and
frequently does, write extremely well. He also writes with considerable
passion...Tallis...is perhaps best seen as an exceptionally interesting
and broad-minded heir to Huxley, preaching the cause of the Church
Scientific...' Richard Webster
