WE are inclined to think of the Cambridge economists working together at Cambridge in the period before the publication of the Principles as a "little band of brothers" and of a work such as John Neville Keynes' Scope and Method of Political Economy as embodying a Cambridge point of view. In fact this picture in incorrect. They were not a "little band of brothers". They did not have a common view. John Neville Keynes' references to Marshall in his diaries are uniformly hostile. For example: "Marshall's long disquisitions are very tiresome"; "Marshall said a good many silly things"; "I really have not time to be on a Board of which Marshall is a member".' All of which suggests a certain lack of sympathy with Marshall, not only with his manners but with his aims. And we know from other evidence that this inference is correct.