Abstract
The historical argument does not enjoin a return to the beginning of things, but rather an intelligent appreciation of what things are coming to. THORSTEIN VEBLEN I In the short space of two years, my initial interest in the prof essionaliza-tion of academic life, particularly as it has taken place in the social sciences, has made me increasingly aware of a homogenizing process at work in Canada tending to make of North America a single society on the United States model. This phenomenon has elsewhere been termed continentalism1 because it expresses the essential reality of a liberalism which, if "beyond" doctrinal ideology,2 nevertheless provides a pragmatic justification for those values implicit in the worship of technique and in the kind of empiricism which defines freedom as the pursuit of happiness and elevates it to the status of a transcendent, if morally empty, goal.3
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