LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Soeren Kierkegaard ... ... ... frontispiece (By permission of the Danish Royal Library) Martin Heidegger ... ... ... facing page 80 ...

Every philosopher paints his own picture of the Cosmos and man's part in it. Philosophies contradict each other as necessarily as art styles vary. This is the conviction of the author who illustrates his beliefs in short studies of twenty-nine thinkers from the Pythagoreans to the Renaissance.

With a memoir by Mervyn Wall. A selection of entries from the journal which Ussher kept for many years. A first collection was published in 1978 and of this The Irish Times wrote: There is more wit and wisdom in this little book than in a hundred longer and more pretentious productions. Presents a more extensive sampling of Ussher's thoughts than has previously been published.