ABSTRACT
Younger people in the time of shifts of paradigm, both institutional and intellectual, face the difficult task of moving from the old to the new world of learning. The transitional generation marks only the end of a tradition of intellect that is always available for replication and recapitulation in terms of its own paradigm. This chapter explains one paramount principle of cogency in the literature studied in the yeshiva-world, and also in the university and seminary to which Lieberman moved. If Saul Lieberman proved insufficiently educated in the intellectual tradition he left and so unable to carry with him into the new world a clear sense for its logic, Salo W. Baron represents the counterpart phenomenon. The institutional shift in Baron's career was not from yeshiva to university, but from a Jewish-sponsored school, whether the Vienna teachers' seminary or the American Reform Jewish rabbinical seminary, to a non-sectarian university.
