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This volume, composed of eight chapters is a free and easy discussion of the concept of complacency and the author's understanding of the term as applied to human behavior. He advances the belief that complacency is an element lying at the very foundation of all human behavior and that all manifestations of behavior can be included and correlated in his scheme. He likens complacency to the principle of equilibrium in physics and draws parallels which seem to him significant between the two phenomena. He believes there is a tendency in all living organisms, those of the lower type without a nervous system as well as those with highly developed nervous systems, to seek this state of complacency just as there is a law in nature that makes matter tend to a state of equilibrium. Assuming then that human behavior has this central characteristic of seeking what he designates complacency, he believes that all behavior can be accounted for in accordance with this principle, and explains it as some phase of functioning of this tendency. Maladjustments in behavior are due to some fault in this delicate adjusting mechanism of equilibrium, the state of equilibrium is in a last analysis a physiological balance. In the words of the author, “The results of this search, if they be admitted, lend further support to the hypothesis that the complacency tendency is the biological equilibrium tendency.” The autonomic nervous system plays an important rǒle in maintaining this equilibrium or complacency. He brings forward facts to prove his thesis, citing the works of many authors but bases his hypothesis principally on the research works of Kempf, Higier and Rignano. There is nothing new brought forward in this study for the same principle has been presented by others, but the book is of value as adding assent to previous research.