Fuller, R.B: On Christopher Morley

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"Christopher Morley was the greatest scholar I had known.

He was the editor of Bartlett's Quotations; he was a comprehensive reader, and an editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

He gave himself very much to the other man. He had allegiance to his intuitions and to the universal phenomenon of love. Just ask a scientist to give you the difference between a stone and love. Science is absolutely wrong in thinking that the physical--all that chemistry lying there--is life, when it has nothing to do with what life is.

Christopher Morley loved life so much. He was courageous about being utterly metaphysical."