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I have pointed out elsewhere that when the social worker looked at the human individual from a scientific standpoint, man as man became important, for differentiations based on social and economic status, racial,: national, or sex factors, conditions of body or mind became incidental to his identity as a person. Science then has served as a humanizing force in giving a deeper understanding of human nature. It is important to remember though that science in any field may reinforce our tendency to generalize, and its adherents must guard against the subjective enthronement of those observations which are personally gratifying or which in some way serve their user's purpose. One has only to look out to the broad social scene today to see the inhumanities that man is committing against man in the name of this or that so-called scientific generalization. May social case work avoid, this misuse of scientific method. Charlotte Towle (1941)