This is a closely reasoned argument—so closely that most of the sentences contain the words 'in a previous chapter' or 'in a succeeding chapter'. The author seeks to establish the idea of what he calls primary 'goods', an idea which strongly reminds one of Melanie Klein's 'good things' and 'good objects'. He takes the view that neither morality nor art belongs to this primary category. Discussing the familiar triad of truth, beauty and goodness he suggests replacing the last of these by the conception of friendly personal relationships, one of considerable interest to any psycho-analyst. Although his whole theme cries out for the co-operation of psycho-analysis, he does not mention analysis or Freud.