ABSTRACT
Psychologists, being relative newcomers on the academic scene, often like to excuse themselves with the claim that, after all, psychology is an infant science. The magical power of the scientific-sounding label is potent enough in our culture of irium, hydramatic drives, and activated gasolines without the psychologist's contribution. Psychologists are most unwise if they forget that human relations are too complex to be accessible from the standpoint of the individual alone. There are facts of human organization and behavior in the mass that have to be studied at their own level — by the sociologist, the political scientist, the economist, the historian. The student who turns to psychology can find there some of the data that he needs to piece out a mature perspective on modern society. But this is only to say that the old precept, "Know thyself," defines a goal toward which an entire liberal education should point, one that transcends any limited field of knowledge.
