Of books, though, very little. And of the bookswhich to most literary persons are bread and butter, novels, history, poetry, plays, almost nothing atall. It isn’t that they’re not interested in the psychological or moral or social life. In the social life,they certainly are, more than most of us. In themoral, they are by and large the soundest group ofintellectuals we have; there is a moral componentright in the grain of science itself, and almost allscientists form their own judgments of the morallife. In the psychological they have as much interest as most of us, though occasionally I fancy theycome to it rather late. It isn’t that they lack the interests. It is much more that the whole literature ofthe traditional culture doesn’t seem to them relevant to those interests. They are, of course, deadwrong. As a result, their imaginative understanding is less than it could be. They are self-impoverished. The Two Cultures