“As with all books of this kind, the author’s treatment can be considered adequate only by those who agree with him. To others it will appear that the points neglected by the author are more important than those noticed by him.”
+ − Ath p539 Je 27 ’19 80w
“Mr Joad’s book is readable, interesting, and quite remarkably intelligible. There is an avoidance of technical jargon, and an admirable lucidity. It is a book which can be read with much profit by all who are interested in philosophy without being professional philosophers.” B. R.
+ Ath p652 Jl 25 ’19 1800w Booklist 17:7 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 Jl 31 ’20 170w Brooklyn 12:28 N ’19 50w New Repub 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w
“His book, though unsatisfactory to any student of philosophy who possesses a philological conscience and a critical historic sense, does in some sort canvass a number of the problems that we can escape only by refusing to speculate at all. It will serve as well as another to satisfy the commonplace metaphysical instinct. And the student who takes it up for this purpose will receive from it a fair measure of initiation into the study of philosophy, and of orientation and stimulus of his own reflections.”— Paul Shorey
− + Review 3:232 S 15 ’20 1100w
“This book should be widely read. It deserves close and careful study as an indication of the best lines of the metaphysical thought of today.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 Jl 1 ’20 300w
“His book is a real stimulus to thought.”