During the last few years it has become more and more apparent that there exists a considerable impatience and even intolerance between traditional religious thought, and certain assertions on the part of social sciences and psychology, which have become influenced by psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis, as is generally known, was born out of psychopathology and both sociology and psychopathology joined hands recently to make friends with one another and with anthropology. The result of all this is the almost emphatic claim that psychopathology and social sciences have become scientific disciplines—or that they have become more influenced by the scientific method than by philosophy. To a certain extent this claim is justified; yet and almost in spite of this there is a far cry between the modern meaning of the term anthropology and the meaning which anthropologia had originally. Instead of being the science of man, it has become more the science of human institutions and social relationships; it has fallen under the heavy weight of statistical averages, which are still mistakenly accepted as the best entering wedge into the field of true (scientific!) knowledge.