John Langdon-Davies was born in 1897 in Zululand, South 

 Africa. His father was an English clergyman. His grandfa- 

 ther was an electrical inventor. This ancestry helps explain Dr. 

 Davies' interest in science and religion. He was educated at 

 Tonbridge School and at St. John's College, Oxford ; and while 

 there held the Sir Thomas White scholarship in modern his- 

 tory, as well as three other scholarships and exhibitions. For 

 two years he was feature writer in the London office of the 

 Christian Science Monitor; and contributed to the New States- 

 man and the JVestminster Gazette. In 1923 he was sent to 

 Spain by the Daily News as special correspondent. He has lec- 

 tured extensively in England and the United States. His books 

 include, Man and His Universe, A Short History of Women, 

 The New Age of Faith and Dancing Catalans. Dr. Davies, in 

 Man and His Universe, a selection of the Scientific Book Club, 

 takes as a thesis, Science in Search of God, presenting there 

 a balanced and skilful argument for religious truth and the God 

 Reality as the chief objectives of mankind. The book, of course, 

 presents other aspects of scientific enquiry. 



