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the organismal hypothesis of consciousness, such knowledge 

 is elevated to the rank of strict equality with "pure thought," 

 often so-called; that is, with subjective, or intuitive knowl- 

 edge. In this way mathematico-mechanistic science is de- 

 prived of the regal place it has claimed for itself since the 

 era of Descartes and Leibnitz, and is brought to the plane 

 of absolute equality as to importance and dignity, with 

 sense-experiential science. By thus adjusting the claims of 

 these two great realisms of science, an attitude toward the 

 infinite totality of nature, and a methodology for interpret- 

 ing it, which have hitherto borne the stamp of subjection 

 and inferiority assume their rightful places in the great 

 hierarchy of philosophical science. This leveling-down of 

 mathematical mechanics and the deductive method and level- 

 ing-up of observational knowledge and the inductive method, 

 implies the complete overthrow of psycho-physical dualism 

 in psychology, and the rescue of personality from bondage 

 to a theoretically infinite monotony of "Matter and Energy." 



The characterization of the effects of the organismal view 

 on morals centers around the perception that in the establish- 

 ment of human personality the persons are organically in- 

 terdependent upon one another; that is, interdependent 

 through their "attributes of relation," this resulting in the 

 incorporation of men into a pluralistic universe far more 

 real and vital than philosophic pluralism has hitherto been 

 in position to grasp. Through a type of human conduct 

 guided by knowledge of these principles of personality and 

 the interdependence of personalities, and through supple- 

 menting mathematico-mechanistic methods of study by a 

 rigid application of observational and statistical methods, a 

 genuine science of morals, both theoretical and practical, 

 is made attainable. 



That my enterprise of developing the organismal view is 

 only part and parcel of the general current of interpretation 

 of living nature which has flowed through the centuries seems 



