This book is a collection of essays critical of certain modern institutions, including modern education, the cost of which is the erosion of tradition oral transmission from generation to generation. Other topics include East and West, reincarnation, democracy, and traditional metaphysics. 1. Am I My Brother's Keeper? 2. The Bugbear of Litteracy 3. Paths that Lead to the Same Summit 4. Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge 5. East and West 6. 'Spiritual Paternity' and the 'Puppet Complex' 7. Gradation, Evolution, and Reincarnation 8. The Bugbear of Democracy, Freedom and Equality