“Mr. Saltus is a scientific pessimist, as witty, as bitter, as satirical, as interesting and as insolent to humanity in general as are his great teachers, Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann.”--_Worcester Spy._ “A whole library of pessimism compressed into one small volume by a writer whose understanding of the value of words amounts almost to genius.”--_Chicago Herald._…
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