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towards becoming naturalists, we cannot 

 but feel that the next step in progress must 

 depend upon how far YTfi n gtllrn1l ' p+r nn - 1>r i 

 our turn become something r>f 



and_eyen philosophers. 



It is a matter of common sense and expe- 

 rience, which we are all verifying any and 

 every day for ourselves, th^t th^ psyphn- 

 logically-minded person ran find do^s see 

 farther into life, ^nd ftr<** mr^ Q .Q g p Q nt c r>f if 

 than the most skilled mechanic, be he the in- 

 ventor of machines or the discoverer in 

 physics. After a^j the biologist cannot be 

 until h? 



than a physicist and 



so on: beyond its struc- 



tures and reactions, life has an aspect 

 behaviour, and tVmt is affpr ^]] A f,hf rnP 1<r> 

 onq. As he grasps this, he becomes a bio- 

 psychologist, and starts upon fresh quests; 

 at first, no doubt, and properly, armed cap- 

 a-pie with brass instruments and copper 

 wires. Faithful to his physico-mechanical 

 upbringing, he measures reaction-times, he 

 plots curves, he again reassures himself that 

 there is nothing more in Life. But one day 

 danger and opportunity arouse him; another 

 love or sorrow awakens him altogether not 

 most probably to any mystic vision such as 

 vitalists are credited with by their opponents, 



