This is a stimulating, if discursive, attack upon many of the popular fallacies concerning modern scientific thought. It would seem rather timely in America, where pseudoscientific philosophers arise and clash the cymbals and strive to twist the latest theory in pure science into the service of the current political, sociological or theological dogma.

Had the author turned his attention to the schismatic field of psychology, he might have found myths as well worth exploding as that of the 'Nordic Blond' or the 'heredity fiends', to which attention is divertingly drawn in this volume.