This small book contains twenty-five essays, each two to three pages in length. The author writes against shoddy emotions, greed, cowardice, snobbism, and dictatorship; he is for serenity, free thinking, wisdom, and tolerance. The essay on daydreams and nightmares is of interest to the analyst as a collector's item, recalling as it does the type of criticism of Freud which was more characteristic of the turn of the century than of now.

In summary the essays espouse in a semireligious manner the bromidic, the banal, and the platitudinous.