“The philosophizings will please many not too radical thinkers. Most people will prefer his bits on nature.”
+ Booklist 17:97 D ’20 Bookm 52:367 D ’20 180w Lit D p101 N 6 ’20 1200w
“He is a naturalist; his vision is as broad as terrestrial time; he leads us over much geological and biological ground to the mind of man. But once confronted with that phenomenon, he is, like many a scientist, evasive; he is reduced to the merest academic platitudes.”
+ − Nation 112:89 Ja 19 ’21 840w
“Spirited and eloquent pages.” H. W. Boynton
+ N Y Evening Post p4 D 31 ’20 1050w
“There will be many who will take issue with Mr Burroughs’s philosophy of God and nature, good and evil, life and death, but this will not disturb him. He has unquestionably brought the inexorable facts of existence to bear upon theories, creeds and beliefs, and has applied their lesson with unsparing frankness. The result is not in line with so-called orthodoxy, but none the less he has coined into words the unspoken expressions of many hearts.” H: L. West
+ − N Y Times p16 O 24 ’20 950w
“His philosophy is a mass of contradictions. Mr Burroughs in accepting the universe drops out from it its most important phenomena.”
− Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 300w