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'' In showing that the abnormal can be explained in terms of the normal, 

 psychology does now for the phenomena of mind what the physical sciences 

 have long done for the phenomena of nature. . . . 



" Psychology as a science postulates the reign of natural law in the subjective 

 sphere just as rigorously as physics postulates the reign of law in the objective 

 sphere. . . . 



"It is not in the unusual and the abnormal that the reflective mind is to see 

 God. It is not through gaps in nature that we are to get glimpses of the super- 

 natural. Rather is it in the very nature of nature, rational, harmonious, law- 

 conforming, subject to scientific interpretation, that we have the best evidence 

 that the world is made mind-wise, that it is the work of an intelligent mind, that 

 there is a rational spirit at the core of the universe. 



" For science the transcendent does not enter into the perceptual realm external 

 or internal. It is, indeed, hard for the religious mind to admit this fact in all 

 its fullness. Until it does, however, religion must always stand more or less in 

 fear of science. Once give up the perceptual, in all its bearings, to science, and 

 religion will find that it has lost a weak support only to gain a stronger one. 

 Ultimately, I believe, we shall find that the full acceptance of science in the mental 

 domain as well as in the physical will strengthen the rational grounds of theistic 

 belief." 



