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() UK philosopher, broadcaster and author, a senior civil servant during World War One, and thus exempt from service. His public loucheness and transgressive atheism, as well as a sustained advocacy of free love, enliven much of his nonfiction, including his two contributions to the To-day and To-morrow series [for titles see Checklist below] and in The Dictator Resigns (), where his advocacy of free birth control and abortion, though couched on Eugenic lines, is still refreshing.

His fiction was infrequent, but his abiding cast of mind is conspicuously manifested in Priscilla and Charybdis and Other Stories (coll ), the title story of which features the seduction of a young matron by a hairy flâneur who claims to be the Reincarnation of Pan (see Sex).

His last work of fiction, The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (), much augmented by Mervyn Peake's illustrations, fairly closely homages his