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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AUG 5 1966
WESTERN PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE AND CLINIC
3811 O'HARA STREET

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15213
PHONE 683-1620 AREA CODE 412

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
AND
CHAIRMAN, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
HENRY W. BROSIN, M.D.

August 1, 1966

Joshua Lederberg, M.D.

Department of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford Medical Center

Palo Alto, California 94304

Dear Doctor Lederberg: Tos hua

I have always admired your manifold activities but Iam
astonished at your energy and ability to track down the quotation
from A. N. Whitehead and your remembrance of our earlier conversation
on the subject. I am pleased to have this revival of the Whitehead
quotation which has been known to me from time to time in the past
when I review THE AIMS OF EDUCATION. It is an acute insight, like
many others, which is thrilling upon confrontation but which fades
rapidly from memory if it is not tied to some concrete circumstance.
Over the years I have used various quotations from Whitehead and Freud to
illustrate the thesis that the purpose of thought is action as a common
sense approach to some of our philosophical dilemmas.

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I very much appreciate your sending the quotation on to me
and hope that I1@# reciprocate in the future.

Cordially,

Task

Henry W. Brosin, M. D.
Director

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