Darwin confused us, says John Barnie in No Hiding Place (University of Wales
Press, £9.95, ISBN 0 7083 1342 6). Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins and
Edward Wilson failed to unscramble our minds. So “I have set essays on nature
side by side with essays on poetry and poets, for poets express the wound that
science has dealt us in a way that the scientists cannot do themselves.” So
there.
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