Project Gutenberg 2025-08-03 Public domain in the USA. 234 Sullivan, J. W. N. (John William Navin) 1886 1937 Sullivan, John William Navin 28006294 Gallio : $b or, The tyranny of science $aNew York :$bE. P. Dutton & Co., $c1928. [To-day and to-morrow series] Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Gallio : or, The tyranny of science by J. W. N. Sullivan" is a philosophical essay of cultural criticism written in the early 20th century. The book examines the growing prestige of science and challenges its claim to define reality, especially where it sidelines art, morals, and spiritual experience. Its likely topic is the limits of scientific method and the need to recognize values, purpose, and imagination as central to human knowledge. The essay opens with the rise of scientific authority from Darwin to Einstein, noting how artists first resisted and then, after the War, often embraced a bleak materialism. It argues that modern physics—especially relativity—undermines the old “iron laws,” showing that scientific laws are mind-shaped selections from a world of “point-events,” and that science offers only partial, abstract descriptions of reality. Sullivan criticizes the fetish of measurement and the misuse of scientific prestige in fields like eugenics, crude psychoanalysis, and behaviourism, as well as the fallacy of “explaining by origins.” He urges humility before quantum mysteries and calls for richer abstractions, drawing on thinkers like Eddington and Whitehead to replace “substance” with “organism” and to reconnect space, time, memory, and expectation. Art—especially music—is presented as a mode of genuine knowledge that reveals possibilities of the spirit and anticipates human growth. The book closes by denying that science should tyrannize culture: its scope is limited, its laws are provisional and self-referential, and it is largely irrelevant to the deepest moral and spiritual concerns. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3105814 20250105113023sullivan 1928 US Reading ease score: 50.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Science Science -- Philosophy Q Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Philosophy & Ethics 92882 2025-09-30T08:31:29.572066 text/html 69029 2025-08-03T20:01:16 text/html 419065 2025-09-30T08:31:32.415089 application/epub+zip 417730 2025-09-30T08:31:30.390123 application/epub+zip 134390 2025-09-30T08:31:29.957167 application/epub+zip 316690 2025-09-30T08:31:34.028072 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 303277 2025-09-30T08:31:32.048112 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 79094 2025-09-30T08:31:29.392082 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 59229 2025-08-03T20:01:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16621 2025-09-30T08:31:34.158059 application/rdf+xml 15679 2025-09-30T08:31:30.102074 image/jpeg 2319 2025-09-30T08:31:30.029171 image/jpeg 565252 2025-09-30T08:31:29.603091 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia