Religion and Science
7. The ‘Religion’ of the Modern Age
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a reintegration of the parts into the whole, and
of the formation of true scholars, as well as of
scientific workers. The direction of the
institutions of learning, and of those which
apply to man the results of the special
sciences, from biological chemistry to political
economy, should not be given to specialists,
because
specialists
are
exaggeratedly
interested in the progress of their own par-
ticular studies, but to individuals capable of
embracing all sciences. The specialists must be
only the tools of a synthetic mind. They will
be utilized by him in the same way as the
professor of medicine of a great university
utilizes the services of
pathologists,
bacteriologists, physiologists, chemists, and
physicists in the laboratories of his clinic.
None of these scientists is ever given the
direction of the treatment of the patients. An
economist, an endocrinologist, a social
worker, a psychoanalyst, a biological chemist,
are equally ignorant of man. They cannot be
trusted beyond the limits of their own field.
Scores of such institutions have already
