SOURCE: "Mr. Powys Inquires Into the Meaning of Culture, in New York Times Book Review, November 10, 1929, p. 2.

In the following review of The Meaning of Culture, Forman discusses Powys's "working substitute" for religious faith.

It is not for nothing that Mr. Powys in the book under review addresses himself primarily to the young. The maturer consciousness, the character that is already formed and set, how tolerant so ever it may be, must nevertheless constantly rebel at any one else's idea of what culture should be. For culture is one of those elusive attributes in the individual at least as difficult to define as what makes a gentleman. Indeed, both of those words and their definitions are what sensitive people shy away from and seldom bring forward if they can help it. Mr. Powys himself, being a sensitive artist and a man of an exquisite culture, may be presumed...