A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship , and literature of the Western world. I consider this, as his other books, of outstanding importance and scholarship, clarity and depth. I believe that anyone truly interested in the science of man...will find these books a wealth of data, penetratingly analyzed and written in such a way that he has the chance of digesting them in his own manner. —Erich Fromm Cover design by Neil Stuart. Cover illustration: from a fifteenth-century antiphonary in the Museo Opera del Duomo, Florence, Italy.