"What we need, and we shall continue to need not less, is something with the livingness of the deepest vital instinct; as intelligence, a power - rooted, strong in experience, and supremely human - of creative response to the new challenges of time; something that is alien to either of Snow's cultures" (Leavis, 47)
In this passage, Leavis suggests that with the impending advancements of science and technology comes the need for mankind to be "in full intelligent possession of its full humanity" and that Snow's cultures don't allow for or account for this. Do you find this to be a problem in Snow's "Two Cultures"? Snow consistently focuses on historical background and uses it as a paradigm for seems necessary for the future, and yet Leavis stops this idea short by stating that Snow's concept of the two cultures and how life is now has no answer for what the future is bringing. Thoughts?
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