THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE 



hensiveness and ability to deal with fundamental 

 issues. But if I may be permitted to dramatize a 

 little the position of the psychologist, he can well 

 afford to continue patiently at work, unmindful 

 of the occasional supercilious sneers of the episte- 

 mologist. The cause of modern civilization stands 

 and falls with the ability of the individual to 

 serve as its agent and bearer. And psychology 

 is naught but the account of the way in which 

 individual life is thus progressively maintained 

 and reorganized. Psychology is the attempt to 

 state in detail the machinery of the individual 

 considered as the instrument and organ through 

 which social action operates. It is the answer 

 to Kant s demand for the formal phase of ex 

 perience how experience as such is constituted. 

 Just because the whole burden and stress, both 

 of conserving and advancing experience is more and 

 more thrown upon the individual, everything which 

 sheds light upon how the individual may weather 

 the stress and assume the burden is precious and 

 imperious. 



Social ethics in inclusive sense is the correla 

 tive science. Dealing not with the form or mode 

 or machinery of action, it attempts rather to make 

 out its filling and make up the values that are 

 necessary to constitute an experience which is 

 worth while. The sociologist, like the psycholo 

 gist, often presents himself as a camp follower of 



