• DOI:10.1038/137026d0
• Corpus ID: 157530

The Present Age

@article{Kierkegaard1962ThePA,
  title={The Present Age},
  author={Soren Aabye Kierkegaard},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1962},
  volume={137},
  pages={26-27}
}

• S. Kierkegaard
• Published 12 September 1962
• Medicine
• Nature

WE have received the first two numbers of the Present Age, a new monthly journal edited and published by Dr. W. J. Stein, 144 Harborough Road, London, S.W.16 (2s. a month). The editor, in a covering circular, points out that modern life has created such a high degree of specialisation that it has become almost impossible to have cognisance of more than one sphere of knowledge or activity. The Present Age is designed to relate different fields of knowledge by the publication of articles apparently independent, but showing their true interrelationships. The January issue (1, No. 2) contains, among others, historical articles on “King Arthur”, “Christmas through the Ages”, and “Eurythmy in Ancient Greece”, the last-named with four excellent plates of Nereids from figures in the Nereid Room of the British Museum. Science is represented by articles on “Alterations in the Earth's Surface”, and “The Classification of the Animal Kingdom”, and medical science by one on “The Nature and Treatment of Sclerosis”, a process terminating in hardening and calcification in tissues and organs. The latter presents the subject largely from a metaphysical and homoeopathic point of view, and cannot be accepted as representing modern medical conceptions. The metaphysical also looms large in “Alterations in the Earth's Surface”, and so far as science is concerned, the articles can scarcely be accepted as representative of its modern aspects.