ABSTRACT
Mr Wyndham Lewis, a visual specialist with the combined curiosity and audacity of the born diagnostician, seems possibly to possess the talismanic virtue. Time and Western Man is part of a crusade. Its object is to recover and defend the common-sense view of the world. A psychologist can be qua psychologist an uncompromising behaviorist, and be unreservedly a responsive reader of Dante. The material world that the human intellect has created is still there, of course: but as it is a creation of our minds, it will no doubt be found that can even physically disintegrate it. He quotes some phrases of his theophrastian 'character' of the Revolutionary Simpleton, a product he considers, of time philosophy on the plane of vulgarisation. It is clear, even from this specimen scrap, that Wyndham Lewis needs to learn nothing from Bergson about emotional appeals, he even seems to have a thing or two to teach anyone in the less boasted arts of controversy.
