26th June
In June 1923 he was thinking about relationships. In a letter to his friend Sebastian Sprott he doubted that psychology could give much insight into his unhappiness, even though 'your psychology is of course better than other people’s’ (Sprott became a prominent psychologist and sociologist). 'Science’, wrote Forster, 'when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong – I refrain from adding in booming tones 'and always will be.’ Not surprisingly, he concluded that 'Art is a better guide than Science’. (Source: Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank (London: Collins, 1983-1985), letter of 28 June 1917)
