The fifth volume of E.H. Gombrich's collected essays deals with values and their place in the humanities. Ranging in subject from the philosophy of Hegel to wartime propaganda broadcasts, the future of museums to the role of reason and feeling in the study of art, Gombrich consistently upholds the ideals of culture that are constantly under threat from the idols of irrationality and intolerance. He is a distinguished upholder of a liberal and humane tradition in scholarship and criticism.