In there remarkably readable essays - “Understanding Ourselves”, “The Calling of Man”, and “Understanding History” – Michael Polanyi argues that fact is inseparable from value and that the sciences cannot be severed from the humanities. Bringing to this writing the credentials of a man who followed a distinguished career as a scientist and am equally distinguished career as as social scientist, Michael Polanyi conveys the passion and sense of responsibility he feels essential to the validity of all knowledge. He is indebted to Bergson, to Dilthey, and to the Gestalt psychologists; yet his work goes far beyond them. This short, intelligible volume makes an excellent introduction to this longer books, Personal Knowledge and The Logic of Liberty.