This volume of what John O'Loughlin terms 'supernotational philosophy' combines essayistic and aphoristic contents in such fashion that something new is created which, no matter how seemingly notational, adds up in fairly systematic vein to a new approach to philosophy and, in this case, one that strives for a quadruple approach to categories based on the four principal elements, viz. fire, water, earth, and air. Hence the title,'From Materialism to Idealism', which embraces not only the alpha and omega of things but whatever lies in between as well.