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1959: C. P. SnowThe Two Cultures“Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension….”www.age-of-the-sage.org

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1959: C. P. SnowThe Two Cultures“Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension—sometimes hostility.”www.age-of-the-sage.org

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