ABSTRACT
Specialist inquiry has been carried into so many departments of knowledge that it appears as if everything has been brought under its sway and that it has given anthropologists and psychologists, not only infallible truth about every detail, but also a valid picture of the whole. Specialist technique has, indeed, the effect of rendering it more obscure instead of bringing it to light; for it introduces into that technique unconsciously accepted premises. Specialist scientific information resembles a collection of photographs of the streets and buildings of a town, placed side by side and seen independently. They may be extremely accurate photographs but they will not give the instantaneous conception of the town as a whole which a single aerial photograph will produce. The whole modern outlook is a combination of childish naivety with the superb analytical skill of the specialist.
