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Any scientific value that this paper might have i ost in an overgrowth of platitudes and generalities. Truth is divided into 'truth' subjective and 'truth' objective. The former is what the individual feels to be the truth and what he would like to be the truth. The sources of error are classified under seven heads, viz.: (1) Limited sensibility, (2) Wish fulfilment, (3) Externalization, (4) Recapitulation, (5) False association, (6) The time factor, (7) The balance of opposed couples. There is some discussion and criticism of Psycho-Analysis, but the author's qualifications for this rôle may well be doubted. To give one excerpt, he writes: "That the Oedipus complex is not determined by experience but only makes use of it, is shown most clearly in cases where the father died before the child had time to experience him, leaving the Oedipus tendency free to flourish unchecked by the limiting process of experience.'