Psychic Integration 



process he had conceived, i.e., had pictured in his "inner 

 world" of consciousness. The genuineness of the individual, 

 the personal, the unique character of mental life and mental 

 creation can hardly be more strikingly illustrated than by 

 such cases as this of Darwin's when the conception, the hy- 

 pothesis, is kept to one's self so long in order "to prove" 

 whether it is "true" or not. 



Now I want to call particular attention to the indubitable 

 fact that these illustrations are only extreme manifesta- 

 tions of attributes which are universal in the human animal 

 at least. There is no normal human known to anthropology 

 which has not some measure, no matter how small, of creative 

 impulse in art and in science. 



As a conclusion to this presentation of instances I must 

 again insist upon one of my cardinal points : that the in- 

 dividually active and creative power of the human organism 

 on its psychical side is not a whit less real, less objective, less 

 a natural phenomenon to the natural historian than is the 

 individually creative power of physical growth and variation, 

 and reflex and tropistic action. Indeed, the thorough-going, 

 consistent zoological naturalist, the substance of whose 

 science is largely animal behavior in all its aspects, can not 

 possibly approve the effort to separate completely the two 

 sorts of creation. 



First Move Toward Showing the Organismal Character of 



the Higher Psychic Life 



Now for the further scrutiny of such psychical facts as 

 those typified by the examples presented, for the pur- 

 pose of seeing what has been done and may yet be done to- 

 ward bringing them into accord with the organismal con- 

 ception, the pole star of all our previous discussions. This 

 examination will begin, as others have begun, by showing 

 how elementalistic attempts to interpret organic phenom- 



