ABSTRACT
The social sciences are experiencing a general crisis: they are all weighed down by their own progress, if only as a result of the accumulation of knowledge and the lack of co-operative work, while no attempt to organize the latter on intelligent lines has yet been made. Whether they like it or not, all social sciences are affected directly or indirectly by the progress of the most vigorous among them; yet they struggle on with a backward-looking, pernicious humanism that can no longer serve as a framework. All, with varying degrees of lucidity, are preoccupied with their own place in the vast body of ancient and modern discovery and this at the very time when it seems that the many paths of the social sciences must converge.
