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ing apart and piecing together; of throwing all 

 emphasis upon peculiarities of number, size, and 

 appearance of matured structure; of regarding 

 change, growth, and function as external, more or 

 less interesting, attachments to form. Examina 

 tion of this period is instructive; there is much in 

 contemporary investigation and discussion that is 

 almost unpleasantly reminiscent in its suggestive- 

 ness. The psychologist should profit by the inter 

 vening history of science. The conception of evo 

 lution is not so much an additional law as it is a 

 face-about. The fixed structure, the separate 

 form, the isolated element, is henceforth at best a 

 mere stepping-stone to knowledge of process, and 

 when not at its best, marks the end of comprehen 

 sion, and betokens failure to grasp the problem. 



With the change in standpoint from self-in 

 cluded existence to including process, from struc 

 tural unit of composition to controlling unity of 

 function, from changeless form to movement in 

 growth, the whole scheme of values is transformed. 

 Faculties are definite directions of development; 

 elements are products that are starting-points for 

 new processes ; bare facts are indices of change ; 

 static conditions are modes of accomplished ad 

 justment. Not that the concrete, empirical phe 

 nomenon loses in worth, much less that unverifiable 

 &quot; metaphysical &quot; entities are impertinently intro 

 duced; but that our aim is the discovery of a 



