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My friend Edward Shils, one of the great sociologists of the past century, read Dickens, Balzac, Conrad, and Cather over and over; and there can be little doubt that his having done so made him a better social scientist. I shall never forget Edvard telling me one evening how much he admired Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and other free-market economists who were his colleagues at the University of Chicago.
"They are highly intelligent," he said, " and subtle and penetrating and have intellectual courage. Yet with all that, Joseph, I fear that they are insufficiently impressed with the mysteries of life."