AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



Jn his laboratory and study he may assure 

 himself that he is dealing only with an 

 unusually complex, highly-endowed, and, 

 in every way, remarkable animal, and 

 reassure himself, in the face of the diffi- 

 culties of the biological analysis of this 

 animal, by remembering how he has been 

 able to reveal, and, in some measure, 

 explain the make-up and capacities of 

 other at first baffling animals. But in 

 his home with his family, and in his social 

 intercourse with his friends and acquaint- 

 ances, he sometimes loses the confidence 

 of his laboratory hours. My wife and 

 little girl are confusingly different from 

 that impersonal thing, man as a lab- 

 oratory subject, which I persist in 

 hoping to analyze into pieces and prop- 

 erties capable of scientific explanation, or 

 at least description. There is something, 

 or many things, in all the human beings I 

 know personally, and something in my- 

 self, which make them and me very dif- 

 ferent from the samples of the species 

 that I study in the laboratory. 

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