Books: Unitary Man

THE NEXT DEVELOPMENT IN MAN (322 pp.) — Lancelot Law Whyte — Holt ($3.50).

Albert Einstein says that this book is "stimulating, original and full of understanding for the pressing problems of our time." It is.

Professor Einstein does not say that the book is clear, or well-written, or lucid. It is not. The book is the work of a Scottish physicist, Lancelot Whyte, 51, who was chairman and managing director of Power Jets, Ltd. from 1936 to 1941. With Frank Whittle, inventor of gas turbine jet propulsion, he shared in the development of jet propulsion. Whyte is a scientist who believes...

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