Notes

1. . This seems to be a time for surprises. Richard Gelwick says he was surprised at the differences in our views. I am surprised that he had read the text of Meaning before its publication (Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch, Meaning [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 19751). No one had ever told me of this. My acknowledgement of Gelwick in the book was only a general, courtesy one, since I knew that he often had discussed matters of religion with Polanyi. So far as I knew, however, he had had nothing to do with the text of Meaning. Polanyi suggested changes of wording in three or four sentences in my draft of the work as we looked it over together before he signed the contract to publish. I incorporated those changes in the final draft submitted to the publisher. None of these were in the parts relating to religion. As a matter of fact 1 have a hand written note from Polanyi saying, “This is just a line to tell you my delight about your section on Religion.” He never commented further on it. I took i t he thought that section was sufficiently satisfactory to him, although it went far beyond his notes on “Acceptance of Religion,” for his lectures at the University of Texas and the University of Chicago in 1969. A second surprise is learning from Gelwick's paper that Polanyi was baptized Roman Catholic. I had never been able to get out of him what he was. He seemed not to want to talk about his own religious experiences or beliefs. From remarks in Michael Polanyi, Logic ofLiberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), as well as from other works of his, I would have thought he was Protestant.
2. . Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & CO., 1966), pp. 87–92. Polanyi and Prosch, pp. 172–81.
3. . Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 283.
4. . Ibid., pp. 283–84.
5. . Ibid., p. 279.
6. . Ibid., p. 133.
7. . Ibid., p. 311.
8. . Ibid., p. 202.
9. . Ibid., p. 189.
10. . Ibid., p. 302.
11. . Ibid., p. 201.
12. . Ibid., p. 202.
13. . Ibid., p. 280.
14. . Ibid., p. 281.
15. . Ibid.
16. . Ibid.
17. . Ibid., p. 28311. His quotation is from Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, vol. I (London: Nisbet & Co., 1953), p. 144.
18. . Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 284.
19. . Ibid.
20. . Ibid., pp. 284–85.
21. . Ibid., p. 283n.
22. . Terence Kennedy, The Morality of' Knowledge (Rome: Pontifica Universitas)
23. . Ibid., p. 139n.
24. . Ibid., p. 171.
25. . Ibid., pp. 193–94.
26. . Collected papers of Michael Polanyi, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Box 15.
27. . Ibid., Box 38.
28. . Ibid. Box 41. Lateranensis, 1979), pp. 138–40. Chicago, Box 15.