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or Leavis? The bland scientism of The Two Cultures or, violent and ill-mannered, the one-track, moralistic literarism of the Richmond Lecture?--that was the choice offered by Aldous Huxley's Literature and Science, published in 1963, four years after Snow's Rede Lecture. Huxley's characterization of Leavis seems almost temperate-after all, Leavis had termed Snow poseur, a vulgar stylist, a dispenser of cliches and expounder of 'Sunday paper culture.' Snow, according to Leavis, was intellectually as undistinguished as it is possible to be. Lacking mental rigor, he presented but a show of knowledgeableness, and his Rede Lecture had moreover betrayed an embarrassing vulgarity of style, though that was hardly surprising in view of Snow's failings as author. is,
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