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each maturing life, in passion or apathy, virtue 

 or vice, social service or crime, health or in- 

 sanity. For him as for Darwin " the soul 

 of man is no whit less the offspring of animals 

 than is his body. Our psychic powers are 

 new dispensations of theirs. The ascending 

 series of gradations is no more broken for the 

 psyche than for the soma." Following Dar- 

 win still, his " method is always and every. 

 where objective and observational, never 

 subjective or introspective. . . . The true ulti- 

 mate knowledge of our psyche is the descrip- 

 tion of all developmental stages from the 

 amoeba up ; and those move most surely among 

 the altitudes who have most carefully ex- 

 plored the depths in which the highest human 

 powers originate. Emotions are best studied 

 in their outward expressions of gesture, will 

 is investigated by the study of behaviour, 

 intelligence by massed instances of sagacity, 

 and not by analysis under old rubrics." 



With example like this of Darwin's, and 

 guidance like this of Stanley Hall's, no 

 biological brother need fear to enter the 

 school of psychology, as we ourselves have 

 done, albeit also tardily. From its many and 

 ever- widening outlooks new views appear; 

 on one side, perhaps, a glimpse of how to 

 clear up the vagueness of current vitalism, 



