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The Alchemist, v.1, issue 3, Summer 1940
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THE ALCHEMIST Page 7 [HALF PAGE ILLUSTRATION] THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOVELS OF OLAF STAPLEDON Studies In A New Type Of Outlook By John B. Michel When at last the boom of the cannon has died away and over a dynamic, peaceful world sounds the clashing, gay noises of the hammer and saw building the foundations of a giant international civilization, it is my opinion that as man begins to force his mind above the thin blanket of atmosphere, the name of Olaf Stapledon will come to the attention of intellectuals as the last truly great Bourgeois philosopher, the first exponent of a cosmical philosophy and the sorely needed link between the materialist Marxian Smeltanschuung and the unknown future. During the last six years, Stapledon has written, among other works, four novels of deep import, ”Last and First Men”, "The Last Men in London”,”The Star Maker” and ”0dd John”. It is unfortunate that none but very few people have come to regard them in their true light. And those who have are almost universally of the science fiction fan type, the sort of person who because of the unique nature of the base of his maladjustment with life and the Cosmos has turned to literature and philosophy of cosmical import. It is useless to accept as valuable
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THE ALCHEMIST Page 7 [HALF PAGE ILLUSTRATION] THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOVELS OF OLAF STAPLEDON Studies In A New Type Of Outlook By John B. Michel When at last the boom of the cannon has died away and over a dynamic, peaceful world sounds the clashing, gay noises of the hammer and saw building the foundations of a giant international civilization, it is my opinion that as man begins to force his mind above the thin blanket of atmosphere, the name of Olaf Stapledon will come to the attention of intellectuals as the last truly great Bourgeois philosopher, the first exponent of a cosmical philosophy and the sorely needed link between the materialist Marxian Smeltanschuung and the unknown future. During the last six years, Stapledon has written, among other works, four novels of deep import, ”Last and First Men”, "The Last Men in London”,”The Star Maker” and ”0dd John”. It is unfortunate that none but very few people have come to regard them in their true light. And those who have are almost universally of the science fiction fan type, the sort of person who because of the unique nature of the base of his maladjustment with life and the Cosmos has turned to literature and philosophy of cosmical import. It is useless to accept as valuable
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