conceded that the Enlightenment experiment had miscarried. It could be argued that it was evident already toward the end of the nineteenth century, but certainly by the middle of our century the emptiness of the modern mind could no longer be concealed. But what is significant about this for our purposes is that just as the modern world was dying in its intellectual sense, it was being born in its sociological form. This birth is also difficult to date with precision, but I think it may be useful