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However, the fact remains that today "science does 

 not beheve in the soul" except as described by the 

 definition, "The soul is the sum total of cerebral 

 functions." And surely no man of science would 

 cite this general belief of humanity in the duality of 

 man based on religious beliefs, mysticism, dreams 

 of a wandering double, etc., as negativing my claim 

 to originality for my conception of the organism as 

 a dual system ; since my concept is gained exclusively 

 from the facts of the pertinent physical sciences, 

 and the appeal is only to these facts. 



XIV. The new method of approach to various 

 lines of research that are connected with human 

 psychology. 



The entire body of the several groups of phenom- 

 ena that are broadly described by the term "psy- 

 chic" will have to be attacked by a new method, the 

 exact quantitative method. This new method is neces- 

 sitated by these "facts," asserted by the theory: 



1. The soul is a quantity; 



2. All psychical qualities and properties are deter- 

 mined numerically, that is, by number and manner 

 of combination of elementary units; 



3. Mind is the electrical organ within the brain; 



4. Consciousness is a quality that arises after the 

 manner in which chemical qualities arise (that is, 

 the quality depends upon, or is determined by, 



