depth of gravity in Gravity's Rainbow

[Mark Kohut]

In the George Eliot chapter of a new book,
"Proust Was a Neuroscientist", Mr. Lehrer
writes:

""Positivism" , a new brand of scientific philosophy...
promised a utopia of reason...."

"like all religions positivism promised to explain everything"...
...."But the first question for the positivists, and in many ways
the question that would be their undoing, was the paradox of 
free will. Inspired by Newton's theory of gravity, which divined
 the cause of the elliptical motions found in the heavens,
the positivists struggled to uncover a parallel order behind
the motions of humans." *

We know how this concept plays out, updated, in Gravity's Rainbow.



"Newton, not so naive, said: "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but
not the madness of people". "


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