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It is with some diffidence that I have proposed the wider conception. I wish, also, to acknowledge my great indebtedness to my friend and colleague, Roger Johnson, to whose pains- taking care in reading the manuscript and correcting the sheets as they passed through the press, this volume owes its freedom from a multitude of imperfections. ONE of the most characteristic features of our time is its tendency to specialism, affecting as it does mens horizons as well as the scope of their activities. What we may think of this condition is a matter of secondary moment, inasmuch as it is the inevitable outcome of the vast exten- sion of the fields of possible knowledge open to the modern mind. It is more important to consider what is to be done about it in view of some of the most serious consequences it entails. prev next |