This title delves deeper into the distinction between primacy and supremacy, the inorganic and the organic, than any of John O’Loughlin’s previous texts, and arrives at conclusions which make it impossible to underestimate the part played by contemporary urban civilization in the destruction, through environmental and technological factors, of inner harmony and peace. Fortunately a solution to the problem has been offered by the author, but it is not one that is likely to ingratiate those for whom contemporary materialism is an end-in-itself rather than something to reject in the interests of self-respect. The 'judgement', however, has still to come! – A Centretruths editorial.