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sequences of some of man's theories about his own nature and its 

 requirements. 



Heretofore the imaginative spirit has had its day in the mat- 

 ter. And, curiously enough, an obsession to subjugate the natural 

 has made it exalt the supernatural. Visions, dreams, portents, 

 revelations, all symptomatic of an order of things above nature, 

 are the stuff of what more than ninety-nine per cent of the mil- 

 lions of the race believe about themselves and their fate. Man's 

 cruelty to man, through the ages, is a comment upon how vast and 

 ramifying may be the consequences of a delusion. 



But now for a couple of centuries the critical spirit, which is 

 the spirit of science, has been invading the affairs of men. Hum- 

 ble but persistent corrosive of delusion, it has infiltrated the 

 furthest bounds of ignorance and superstition. It has not dared 

 lert the supremacy of its fundamental views upon the every- 

 day problems of human life because it was without concrete 

 means of vindicating its claims. That lack is now supplied by the 

 growing understanding of the chemical factors as the control- 

 lers and dictators of all the legion aspects of life. 



The profoundest achievement of the physiologist will be the 

 change his teachings and discoveries will bring about in man's 

 attitude toward himself. When he comes to realize himself 

 chemical machine that can, within limits, be remodeled, over- 

 hauled and repaired, as an automobile can be, within limits, when 

 he becomes saturated with the significance of his endocrine-vege- 

 tative system at every turn and move of his life, and when 

 sympathy and pity informed by knowledge and understanding 

 will come to regulate his relationships with the lowest and most 

 despised of the men, women and children about him, the * 

 the r. civilisation will properly be said to be bora. 



Morality, as society's code of conduct for its members, will have 

 to Change in the direction of a greater flexibility with t! 

 nt of organic differences in human types. Th- 



pathologist than that 

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 in capacity and deportment Cram I DO! hooli 



will fi ! inhibitors of the 



I, as well as in\. ! of the individual! who have 



not enough or too much of one or some of tin in. Pi 



have the came function, on 



