THIS remarkable book elaborates a theory of time, finds confirmation
for it from a number of sources, Egyptian, Greek, Biblical, mediaeval and more recent, and explores its implications for the man or woman in search of a wisdom to live by. It is a work in which intellect and emotion are justly balanced. The theory of a three-dimen- sional time might seem coldly mathematical were Dr. Nicoll not so warmly concerned for his fellow men ; the warmth of 4iis con- cern would be less helpful were it not for the firm intellectual grip that he maintains throughout. His picture of the universe, which substantially repeats that set out by P. D. Ouspensky twenty-five years ago, is consistent and most clearly presented. In dealing with ideas almost incapable of logical exposition, he succeeds in maintain- ing a firm line of argument, and in reinforc- ing his case with well-chosen quotation and analogy. Dr. Nicoll has been all his life first and foremost a psychologist ; and, though his beliefs have greatly changed since his Jungian beginnings, his preoccupation with the individual and with the guidance of his life has remained steadfastly the centre of his interest. Living Time will be, for the minority who discover it, a very important
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