They are all
overwhelmed by their successes, if only because of the accumulation
of new knowledge. But it is also because they now need
to work collectively, and how to organize intelligently such collective
work has yet to be determined. Whether they wish it or not,
they are all affected, directly or indirectly, by the progress of the
most quick-witted among them. But they remain nonetheless in the
grip of a humanism that is retrograde and insidious, one that can
no longer serve as a framework for scholarship. All of them, with
varying degrees of lucidity, are concerned about their place in the
monstrous array of old and new modes of research, whose necessary
convergence seems to be in process.