July, 1929 



EVOLUTION 



Page Thirteen 



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"WHAT IS MIND?" by George T. 



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When we go philosophizing (met- 

 aphysically) we usually wind up no- 

 where. Scientific theorizing (with its 

 continual checking against fact) really 

 achieves new ground. This most prac- 

 tical truth is once more demonstrated 

 in this brief summary of the answers 

 of the metaphysicians and scientists to 

 the problem of the nature of thought, 

 consciousnes and will. The author has 

 thoroughl}' digested his authorities and 

 writes most clearly — when the subject 

 permits. It is not the author's fault 

 that the subject often does not permit, 

 for muddy metaphysics can come to 

 nothing but muddy words. Elsewhere 

 he proves how well he can tell this 

 story. 



He stands four-square with the re- 

 cent scientific achievement; that mind 

 and body are not two, but one; that 

 mind is not a being, but a way of do- 

 ing. His evaluations of behaviorism 

 are soundly appreciative, yet critical. 

 And yet he disappoints. With the 

 emergent evolutionists he gives up the 

 possibility of digging into and even- 

 tually explaining those new qualities 

 which spring from new compounds of 

 elements — chemical, organic, neural, 

 social. That certainly is not scientific. 

 Already in the simpler fields of atomic 

 chemistry and physics we see hints of 

 explanations. 



Also he shows too much concern 

 over the effects that this view or that 

 may have on "the reality, dignity and 

 spiritual worth of the mind," as if 

 honest and careful scientists could ask 

 any question but one, "Is the view 

 true?" Plain wishful thinking this. He 

 does not seem to have sensed the fact 

 that, in its search for truth, science 

 does not permit such thinking. It is 

 to be regretted that so fine a presenta- 

 tion should be so marred. A. S. B. 



•HUMAN EVOLUTION AND 

 SCIENCE" by Francis P. Le Buffe, 

 S. J. Sixth Edition, completely re- 

 vised, sixtieth thousand. The Amer- 

 ica Press, New York, 1928. 10 cents. 

 Two of the three sections of this 

 32-page pamphlet are devoted to con- 

 sidering whether a good Catholic 

 may believe in the evolution of man. 

 The decision follows: "Thus the Cath- 

 olic Church has an explicitly definite 

 and official attitude on certain aspects 

 of human evolution. Its attitude is ab- 

 solutely and irrevocably condemnatory 

 of the evolution of a human soul out 

 of an animal, and of the tribal evolu-- 

 tion of man's body; it is also, though 

 not in the same infallible and irrevoc- 

 able manner, against the evolution of 

 Adam's single body from an animal 

 ancestor." However, in view of the 

 Galileo fiasco, a line of retreat has 

 been left open. "Yet, according to 



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