Only a small fraction of the soc & human sci's can be treated in the same way as is legitimate for the whole of the natural sci's. These -`spear-heads' cut across the traditional boundaries between disciplines. A new division is suggested for `arts & letters', which do not covet the sci'fic label, the soc sci's which are in the position of clients of the natural sci's, & the human sci's which are disciples of the natural sci's. Such a division would avoid the danger of giving any one society a priveleged status & allow the proposed study to set out frankly the real divergences between the soc & humanistic disciplines at present, rather than reflecting traditional R, misleading cleavages. HA.