ABSTRACT
The curved rows of the library's tables and lamps and the many scholars bent over them reading and scribbling greeted the author. This was the room in which Marx had worked for over twenty years, sorting through the data of manufacture in the blue books that formed the empirical basis of his analysis in Capital. The attendant told him many first-time visitors asked where Marx had sat. He asked too. "One will have to try each seat, guv", the attendant answered the author, "Until one feel the emanations". In February of 1972 the author was visited by a graduate student from Penn. He was a historian working on an aspect of modern German history, and he brought some newspapers from Germany he thought he would find interesting. The social sciences in Parsons' time were even more fragmented than they are in ours. In the 1930s they were largely a theoretical and empirical.
