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judgment, the more trustworthy the fuller the 

 knowledge, whether this or that act was in accord 

 with those laws or not, and so whether it was 

 right or wrong. And when he spoke of cc right ' 

 and " wrong," he meant every kind of right, and 

 every kind of wrong. 



His studies in biology had made it clear to him 

 that man must be looked upon as a whole ; that in 

 respect to none of his acts, whatever be their kind, 

 can man's nature be divided into two halves, in 

 such a way that the one half is to be considered 

 as wholly unlike the other half, to be viewed from 

 a wholly different point of view and to be treated 

 in a wholly different way. Without attempting 

 to say what body was or what mind was, he in- 

 sisted that the two were so wed together that no 

 one in dealing with them could put them apart 

 and treat each as if it stood alone. He found it 

 freely admitted that the conduct of man's 

 stomach, however much it had been in earlier 

 times, and indeed still was, governed by the im- 

 pulses of appetite, and by the results of rough 

 experience embodied in custom and authority, 

 was being more and more subjected to rules based 

 on a still imperfect but rapidly growing know- 

 ledge of physiological laws. He noted that 

 whenever any question arose as to what the 

 stomach should be allowed, or be made to do, the 

 final appeal was to physiology, and to this alone, 

 the health and happiness of the stomach being 

 sought for in obedience to physiological laws, and 



