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the organisnial livpotht'sls of consciousness, sucli knoulcd^c 

 is elevated to tlie rank of strict e(|ualitv with "pure tliou^ht," 

 often so-called; that is, witli suhjcctivc, oi- intiiltivi- knowl- 

 edge. In this way niatheniatico-niechanistic science is de- 

 prived of the regal place it has claimed for itself since the 

 era of Descartes and Leibnitz, and is brought to the plane 

 of absolute equality as to importance and dignity, with 

 sense-experiential science, liy thus adjusting the claims of 

 these two great realisms of science, an attitude toward t he 

 infinite totality of nature, and a methodology for interpret- 

 ing it, which have hitherto borne the stanij) of subjection 

 and inferiority assume their rightful places in the great 

 hierarchy of philosophical science. This leveling-down of 

 mathematical mechanics and the deductive method and level- 

 ing-up of observational knowledge and the inductive metljod, 

 implies the complete overthrow of psycho-physical dualism 

 in psychology, and the rescue of })ersonality from bondagi 

 to a theoreticallv infinite monotony of "Matter and Knertrv." 



The characterization of the effects of the organismal \ i( w 

 on morals centers around the perce])tion that in the establish- 

 ment of human personality the persons are organically in- 

 terdependent upon one another; that is, interde|)en(ii'nt 

 through their "attributes of relation," this resulting in the 

 incorporation of men into a ])luralistic universe far more 

 real and vital than })hiloso])hic })luralism has hitherto hreii 

 in position to grasj). I'hrough a type of human conduct 

 guided by knowledge of these principles of personality and 

 the interdependence of personalities, and thiough su)»|)le- 

 menting mathematico-mcchanistic methods of study by a 

 rigid application of observational and statistical methods, a 

 genuine science of morals, both theoretical and practical, 

 is made attainable. 



That my enterprise of developing the organismal \ iiw is 

 only part and ])arcel of the gem ral current of iiitt rj)retat ion 

 of living nature which has flowed through the centuries seems 



