ABSTRACT
“Whereas, if the institutional fabric, the community's scheme of life, changes in such a manner as to throw the workday experience into the foreground of attention and to centre the habitual interest of the people on the immediate material relations of men to the brute actualities, then the interval between the speculative realm of knowledge, on the one hand, and the work-day generalizations of fact, on the other hand, is likely to lessen, and the two ranges of knowledge are likely to converge more or less effectually upon a common ground. When the growth of culture falls into such lines, these two methods the norms of theoretical formulation may presently come to further and fortify one another, and something in the way of science has at least a chance to arise.”—The Place of Science in Modern Civilization, by THORSTEIN VEBLEN, p. 46.
