This little book undertakes to set forth in an acceptable way the simpler facts of sex symbolism, particularly as found in religious and ceremonial observances. The work is very clearly written, the facts simply stated, and appeals, therefore, to the non-technical reader. The author is a psychiatrist and has evidently had his interest in these matters aroused by the psychoanalytic movement in its various ramifications. The reviewer feels that it is unfortunate that a writer who is capable of putting matters so simply and clearly should have after all missed very largely some of the more important fundamentals. In the latter part of the book, if he does not derive sex worship from nature worship, he at least makes it appear at a later period in the development of the race. In so doing it is as if he were to attempt an answer to the question, Which comes first, the egg or the hen?

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