SOURCE: “Williams, Whitehead and the Embodiment of Knowledge: ‘A New Order of Knowing,’” Sagetrieb, Vol. 9, No. 3, Winter, 1990, pp. 57-95.

In the following essay, Holsapple regards the correlation between Whitehead's ideas in Science and the Modern World and William Carlos Williams's in The Embodiment of Knowledge.

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Returning to Rutherford, New Jersey, aboard the S.S. Pennland in September, 1927, William Carlos Williams wrote a series of letters to his wife, Floss, who had stayed in Europe with the two boys. In those letters, Williams discussed how he anticipated returning to work and how he hoped to develop five or six new writing projects. He acknowledged a risk to their marriage in separating, but felt that they were right to do so, even obliged as parents to break “that staleness of schooling” in Rutherford by putting the two boys in a European school for a year. He mentioned that “We have...