In the strange netherworld of Internet Darwinists, the blogger Sensuous Curmudgeon wins a prize for strained humor and a unique adenoidal shrieking quality.
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His take on Darwin's unwitting contribution to 20th-century genocide and mass murder (though certainly unintended) is more right than wrong.
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Publishers Weekly: "Succeeds not only as a history of geometry but also as an exploration of the power of ideas, masterfully replacing cold abstraction with humor and humanity."
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Barzun rejected the Darwinist insistence that purpose and design are illusory or epiphenomenal. He castigated scientism for its intellectual imperialism.
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