AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



as a biologist sees it " seem to have a 

 proper moral, even as tested by so suspi- 

 cious a critic of biology as religion. After 

 all, the biologist does not see human life, 

 in its larger and higher aspects, so differ- 

 ently from the everyday observer or the 

 poet and preacher. He sees wonderful 

 possibilities in it, which man himself 

 can help to make realized. Now if only 

 the everyday observer, poet, and preacher 

 would see human life in regard to those 

 aspects on which the biologist is able to 

 throw some special light, more as the 

 biologist sees it, everything would be all 

 right. The biologist is quite convinced 

 on the basis of a kind of knowledge 

 which, on the whole, has proved itself 

 to all the world as a reliable kind of 

 knowledge, and one that stands the 

 test of time and liveableness, that man 

 can learn much about himself from bio- 

 logical study, and rely much on what he 

 learns in this way to help make his life 

 safer and saner, and himself more capable 

 of achievement, and hence happier. Bi- 

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