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nary technique of objective science. We 

 can also compare one emotion of anger 

 with another and study these subjective 

 differences In relation to the antecedent 

 external, physiological, and conscious 

 causes and in relation to the subjective and 

 objective effects of the pulse of passion. 

 This is a difficult thing to do; but if we 

 rule out of science everything but the easy 

 tasks for which we already have suitable 

 technical methods, science will not make 

 much more progress. 



Our subjective experiences are very real 

 to us and before throwing them into the 

 discard we may well inquire in an un- 

 prejudiced attitude whether they are not 

 genuine factors In a rigidly scientific study 

 of man, whose neglect leaves a fatal gap 

 in certain very significant causal sequences. 

 In fact the exclusion of the conscious proc- 

 esses from a total view of life as the 

 biologist must study it Is scientifically in- 

 admissible and, as I have elsewhere re- 

 marked,^ this procedure can be adopted 

 only by an appeal (usually cleverly 

 masked) to metaphysical, theological, 

 mythological or other unscientific preju- 



1 Brains of Rats and Men. A Survey of the Origin 

 and Biological Significance of the Cerebral Cortex. 

 University of Chicago Press, 1926, p. 289. 



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