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The proper person to review this book would be Mr. Russell himself, the Mr. Russell of Icarus. For the author of Icarus and the author of On Education would seem to be two, not one. It is hard to believe that he who wrote 'It is of the greatest importance to inquire whether any method of strengthening kindly impulses exists … let us assume that it depends upon the glands. If so, an international secret society of physiologists could bring about the millenium by kidnapping, on a given day, all the rulers of the world, and injecting into their blood some substance which would fill them with benevolence towards their fellow-creatures. … But alas, the physiologists would first have to administer the love philtre to themselves before they would undertake such a task. Otherwise, they would prefer to win titles and fortunes by injecting military ferocity into recruits. And so we come back to the old dilemma; only kindliness can save the world, and even if we knew how to produce kindliness we should not do so unless we were already kindly' can also write, 'And when children are doing what they like there is, of course, no reason for external discipline. A few simple rules—no child must interfere with another child, no child must have more than one sort of apparatus at a time—are easily comprehended, and felt to be reasonable, so that there is no difficulty in getting them observed'. These two statements can only both be true if there is an extraordinary difference between children and adults. What we find ourselves driven to ask is how it comes about that