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A work in three parts, which starts with aphorisms in "How Not to Be a Ruminant," shifts to essays in "Weights and Counterweights," and concludes with poetry in "By the Metre." Some arguments appear in more than one section, and include nationalism, class, free will, religion, literature, and the arts, but the theme of human relationships runs through the entire book.

... there is in Cameron's work a lingering spirituality, a faith that the something soulful and significant is present in the everyday, in the ordinary 'heroism of mortals' he writes of. On occasion this takes the form of scepticism about science's claim to be able to quantify and explain all experience. Like the philosopher John Gray, he is dubious about 'progress', political, economic, and scientific. - if Scottish literature has a true outsider, it is not Irvine Welsh: it's Allan Cameron. --Scottish Review of Books

... the new book has all of [Allan Cameron's] customary boldness of thought and range of interests, and is properly unafraid to raise the most fundamental issues. ... It is gratifyingly lucid and has many wise things to say. --Terry Eagleton

Up-to-date enough to include references to Project Fear, this stimulating book works its way up to an atheistic defence of religion and the biggie itself: free will. --The Herald