50 NATIONAL TRENDS IN BIOLOGY 



Thinking of matters of this kind, Professor Gardiner 

 says: 



"Our knowledge of vitamins and their production has 

 undoubtedly changed the lives of people in this country 

 (England) very profoundly; its association with the 

 knowledge of feeding and growth in animals and plants 

 has influenced the development of agriculture on every 

 side." 



The effects "are reflected in politics and education. 

 Scientific biology is at the base, and stimulated the de- 

 velopment of fisheries not only in Western Europe, but 

 in your own country (United States) as well ; the basal 

 work and the stimulators were university men of science, 

 not people paid by the state." 



3. The beginning of a so-called human biology in which 

 the developments and findings of comparative psychology 

 assist us toward a better understanding of human 

 relations. 



In this regard. Professor G. H. Parker holds that: 



"Modern aspects of animal activities in relation with 

 genetics will serve as a basis for understanding human 

 life in a way in which it has never been so completely 

 understood heretofore. The biological attack on this ques- 

 tion is probably the most fundamental that has ever 

 been made." 



Here one must consider the application of these find- 

 ings to sociology at large. One of the outstanding ques- 

 tions which confronts us and requires an answer which 

 the biological psychologist alone can give, is: 



