The God of the Machine

MRS. PATERSON, author of the “Turns with a Bookworm” section of the New York Herald Tribune, enters a literary bout with collectivism, swinging hard with both fists and neither giving nor asking quarter. Where some timid souls who would not anticipate happiness under such foreign brands of collectivism as communism and fascism, or even under certain left-wing interpretations of the New Deal, would settle for a mixed economy, Mrs. Paterson will be content with nothing short of complete freedom in economic relations. The style is uncommonly pungent, lively, and witty for a work dealing with economics, history, and philosophy, Many of the author’s crackling sentences will amuse even those readers who are unwilling to accept all her Conclusions.