AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



that is to be known about human beings, 

 and about that which he does not know 

 we must certainly be permitted to accept 

 our own guess as likely to be as good as 

 his. But we are too likely to think our 

 own guess even better than his. 



This attitude comes largely, I think, 

 from a feeling, after hearing the biologist 

 talk about human life, that his considera- 

 tion of this life is too academic, too 

 technical, too detached from most of 

 those things that make up our immediate 

 interests and fill our present moments. 

 As important as war may be, and juvenile 

 delinquency and eugenics and the rela- 

 tions of social inheritance to biological 

 inheritance, and as interesting as may 

 be the problems of human origin and the 

 relation of the human species to other 

 animal kinds, all of which are samples, 

 as I have indicated in our earlier dis- 

 cussions, of the things the biologist- 

 student of human life especially talks 

 about, these are not the matters of 

 human life that occupy most of the atten- 

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