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A brief but sound and (except for the inclusion of too many quotations) eloquently written exposition of some of the hopes, difficulties and dangers of our present age. Dr. Stoddard draws a striking picture of the contrast between the progress of science, with its immense promise of benefit to man, and the social and psychological obstacles which prevent full utilization of scientific achievement and which even threaten to turn this achievement into a curse rather than a blessing. His suggested remedy (with which psycho-analysts will certainly agree) is the fostering of a scientific spirit of toleration and freedom from emotional prejudice—a task which, he very rightly suggests, is of far greater importance for human progress than the inculcation of any particular kind of scientific knowledge or religious principle. Unfortunately he does not in this volume deal with the further question as to how this desirable mental attitude (which he terms Scientific Humanism) is itself to be brought about—a problem which is at once perhaps the most difficult and yet the most important of those which are waiting to be solved by applied psychology and sociology, a problem also to which psycho-analysis has assuredly, as Dr. Stoddard would doubtless recognize, contributed data of much value.