This book is the seventh such collection of essays by the author which deal mainly with science, or rather with misconceptions about science's impact on other fields of inquiry. Since a back-cover text can hardly contain as much as the titles of the twenty-two essays reprinted in this book, let just a few points be recalled here for the benefit of those who have glanced through the table of contents. One of those points, discussed in some detail in the introduction, is about conspiracy as a more or less tacit effort to keep out of focus the limitations of the scientific method, which is steeped in the use of quantities. The cultural impoverishment to which that conspiracy has led is threatening Western culture with its demise. Would that essays like those reprinted in this book might energize people with good will and open minds.

By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki

ISBN 978-1-892539-05-2  •  x + 309 pages  •  softcover