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This is a remarkable book but, unfortunately, its value is impaired by tendentious writing due to the author's strong ideological bias. This is amply illustrated by the account of Sigmund Freud and the social implications of psycho-analysis (pp. 815–17) from which the following are excerpts: 'Though Freud himself was always striving to express his findings in terms of objective realities, the actual entities he constructed were far more like the spirits, virtues, and faculties of a medieval morality play than the material entities of the physicist and chemist. … Just because these constructs had no possibility of material existence susceptible to any other form of demonstration, they tended to take on … an absolute character, and created a fixed and almost mythological inferno of evil influences. …' 'Because it stressed the hidden importance of the irrational and primitive aspects of the human mind, the new psychology provided an explanation, indeed practically an excuse, for man's inability to deal with the problems of society. The upshot of Freudian psychology was that man was effectively ruled by his own unconscious instincts, implanted before birth and carefully nurtured for evil in the early upbringing of children.' … 'The search for inner truth is a well-worn way to passive acceptance of outward evil.'