The Modern Dilemma

"This is another collection of the lovely and haunting essays by Loren Eiseley, the naturalist writer who has given us so many delightful moments with his books.... If there is a scientist anywhere writing more poetic prose, and making more sense with it, I have not encountered him, nor his productions.... In these essays Eiseley seeks to establish Bacon's remarkable vision of the future and remove from him the onus of having been the founder of today's materialism and technocracy.... Eiseley's little book is a stimulating introduction and insight to Francis Bacon."--Charles D. Aring, M.D., Archives of Internal Medicine