show. It would betray the lack of coördination
among the various sciences, -- the department
of psychology, for example, never coming to so
much as speaking terms with the department of
economics; it would call for an extension, per-
haps, of the now infrequent seminars and con-
ferences between departments whose edges over-
lap, or which shed light on a common field. It
would invite the university to give less of its
time to raking over the past, and help it to orient
itself toward the future; it would suggest to every
university that it provide an open forum for the
responsible expression of all shades of opinion;
it would, in general, call for a better organization
of science as part of the organization of intelli-
gence; it would remind the universities that they
are more vital even than governments; and it
might perhaps succeed in getting engraved on
the gates of every institution of learning the words
of Thomas Hobbes: "Seeing the universities are
the foundation of civil and moral doctrine, from
whence the preachers and the gentry, drawing
such water as they find, use to sprinkle the same
upon the people, there ought certainly to be
great care taken to have it pure."

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