ABSTRACT
In the last fifty years, medicine has allowed itself to be swept off its feet by science; it has neglected its own mission and failed to assert properly its own professional point of view. The content of culture, though it is being made in the field of science more than elsewhere, is not scientific fact but rather a vital faith, a conviction characteristic of our times. The internal conduct of science is not a vital concern; that of culture is. Science is indifferent to the exigencies of our life, and follows its own necessities. Accordingly, science grows constantly more diversified and specialized without limit, and is never completed. The historic importance of restoring to the university its cardinal function of 'enlightenment', the task of imparting the full culture of the time and revealing to mankind, with clarity and truthfulness, that gigantic world of to-day in which the life of the individual must be articulated, if it is to be authentic.
