The papers delivered at the Jubilee Congress of the Modern Humanities Research Association (Cambridge) in August 1968.
Dr J. C. Laidlaw was a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Hon. Secretary of the MHRA.
Too much passive acceptance of the politicians' and accommodating academics' world will indeed mean a death of the spirit of the humanities. These seven scholars remind us that more than the name of humanitas is needed.
A. Norman Jeffares, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 853-854.