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pounding of a remedy there is need for infinite 

 care and investigation, a process which must not 

 be slurred over or abridged, and which involves 

 the keenest exercise of the wisest among us for 

 generations. Here is the opportunity of our 

 Universities. 



In human science it is far more important than 

 even in the science of the material world to avoid 

 superficiality and extreme specialism. As man 

 is an unit, all the studies which bear upon him 

 and explain him must be kept together and their 

 results harmonized. Not good but evil would 

 result, if the recognition of human science were 

 to take the form either of teaching superficial 

 rules from books about psychology or pedagogy, 

 or of encouraging a minute subdivision of the 

 field into small plots in which jealous specialists 

 should sit keeping watch against any infringe- 

 ment of their domain, and fully convinced, each 

 of them, that he alone possesses the key of know- 

 ledge which should guide conduct. As I have 

 observed, man is an unit, and whether as an indi- 

 vidual or in an assembly he must pursue one 

 course and repudiate other courses. The 

 grounds of action have to be taken from a number 

 of different studies; the line of action is neces- 

 sarily a compromise, and influenced by a great 

 variety of motives. Hence the narrow specialist 

 who thinks the particular results at which he has 

 arrived ought at once to dictate conduct, is as 

 fatal a leader as are the rationalist charlatans of 



