Crime, madness, and politics in modern France. The medical concept of national decline

years, Professor Moraux has a high regard for the old windbag from Pergamum, and his conclusions on Galen's eclectic philosophy of nature emphasize his adherence to a "high scientific ideal", p. 791. It is a tradition to which Professor Moraux himself adheres (see his comments on modem university standards in his preface), and of which this book is a worthy modument. All Galenists will have to read and take issue with this book, and weigh up, e.g., the doubts expressed, p. 775, on the validity of the Arabic summary ofDe moribus, or the hints of Galen in Plotinus, p. 808. It only remains to wish the author good speed with his next volume, which will contain a detailed account of the one contemporary of Galen whose counterarguments are still left to us today, Alexander of Aphrodisias. He and Galen, according to the Arabic tradition, shared the same teacher, cf. pp. 361-364, but their conceptions of Aristotle and of the importance of the Aristotelian tradition were far different. Professor Moraux has firmly set Galen in his place within Aristotelian scholarship, and one can only look forward, with admiration and with eagerness, to the next volume. Despite its price, this book should be on the shelves of every library with claims to learning, if only as an example of the force and variety of the legacy of Aristotle in which we all share.