Abstract
“Powerful in [Iris Murdoch] was the love of human differences and of personal idiosyncrasy. . . . Stones were for [her] a natural symbol of individuality. . . . [N]o two natural stones, when examined closely, will turn out to be exactly alike. . . . [T]he scientist and the technologist, perhaps self-consciously and harmlessly, substitute an abstraction from the reality for the reality itself, which is always in the last analysis a collection of individuals. . . . When the individuals under consideration are persons, not stones, the result is unlikely to be harmless. There is loss.” —Stuart Hampshire, “The Pleasure of Iris Murdoch”
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