In which the writer, having blundered and learned through forty-two years of living, sets out to give ordinary men and women the practical knowledge that schools, newspapers, and churches have failed to provide. He promises no final revelation, but a plain, honest, modern handbook for tired workers, business men, wives, doubters, and seekers, beginning with the hard questions of life itself because even the busiest human creature must someday ask what he is doing in the universe.