HUMAN LIFE 



urge that leads to this position perhaps 

 as strongly as those who take it, but I 

 cannot surrender to it as easily. Scien- 

 tific observation and cool reason prevent. 

 How can one accept eagerly and grate- 

 fully that knowledge about our bodily 

 make-up and functioning which the biol- 

 ogist gives us, and, on the basis of it, 

 proceed to modify our behavior so as to 

 protect ourselves from accident and dis- 

 ease, and help ourselves in the attempt 

 to adapt ourselves to the actual condi- 

 tions of the world we live in, and yet 

 reject other no less well demonstrated 

 facts of the same general category brought 

 to us by the same biologist, but the ac- 

 ceptance of which involves a recognition 

 on our part of our true place in Nature. 

 I am inclined to find an explanation for 

 this popular inconsistency in two or three 

 different causes. For one thing some 

 biologists have gone ahead of the actual 

 facts with their justifiable significance 

 and have presented the world with hy- 

 potheses instead of demonstrations and 

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