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rived from the new and specific unity the living person. These 

 working principles in the personality function must no doubt be 

 brought into harmony with what we know of the principles of 

 the sciences of physics and chemistry but also with the sciences 

 of growth and the sciences of organisms. We have to realize that 

 the study of the organismal total-function, the function that 

 hangs together by means of symbolization and consciousness, 

 will have to follow its specific path, according to the relations and 

 facts found, and that is the path which we found in the biogra- 

 phy, which we found in the study of the various directions of 

 functions, the activities, the intellectual functions, the motor 

 functions proper, the action functions and the affective functions, 

 and altogether the Sense,' that which we find only and always 

 as organismal functions. There we find ourselves with what 

 human wisdom and sagacity has long worked with, as we say, by 

 intuition, i.e., by using the immediately available facts and 

 emergents, which ultimately we have to bring into harmony 

 also with facts and relations arrived at through other channels 

 and directions and relations." 



Human "organismal total-function" spoken of in this quota- 

 tion just read is an evolutionary emergent, genetically directly 

 descended from, and in large part still identical with, infra- 

 human animal "organismal total-function." Unless this fact is 

 constantly in mind human behavior cannot be sensibly inter- 

 preted. A great part of what you and I do every day we do 

 in the way we do because it is a part of the entail of the mam- 

 malian pattern and substance of which we are made. 



It would be difficult to find a more unpedantic (and insofar 

 praiseworthy) way of making clear something of the range and 

 nature of the deeply embedded ^mammalian bases of human 

 behavior than is afforded by Alice Crowell Hoffman's little 

 disquisition which may now be quoted, by permission, from the 

 September 1938 issue of Your Life. 



What You Can Learn From Your Dog 



To keep clean. 

 To love children. 



