AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



In his laboratory and study he may assure 

 himself that he is dealing only with an 

 unusually complex, highly-endowed, and, 

 in every way, remarkable animal, and 

 reassure himself, in the face of the diffi 

 culties of the biological analysis of this 

 animal, by remembering how he has been 

 able to reveal, and, in some measure, 

 explain the make-up and capacities of 

 other at first baffling animals. But in 

 his home with his family, and in his social 

 intercourse with his friends and acquaint 

 ances, he sometimes loses the confidence 

 of his laboratory hours. My wife and 

 little girl are confusingly different from 

 that impersonal thing, man as a lab 

 oratory subject, which I persist in 

 hoping to analyze into pieces and prop 

 erties capable of scientific explanation, or 

 at least description. There is something, 

 or many things, in all the human beings I 

 know personally, and something in my 

 self, which make them and me very dif 

 ferent from the samples of the species 

 that I study in the laboratory. 

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