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thought of mind as mechanistic — Not behaviorism 

 itself, but its radical exponents, have brought the 

 belief in some circles into disrepute — Importance 

 to-day of the behaviorist point of view. . . . Be- 

 haviorism a method of study — The soul is born in 

 behavior — Why behavior must be a study of psy- 

 choIog>' — Mental processes distinct from biological 

 processes — Hov? intelligence, and mind, v^^ere born 

 — Mind not a function of brain — Psychology con- 

 cerned in the behavior of the whole individ- 

 ual. ... It is because we can think that we have 

 minds — Soul and body — Nothing like mind-stuflF 

 in protons and electrons — Energy brings us no 

 nearer to mind — A fuller view of evolution ex- 

 plains the psychical. . . . Evolution, now, not de- 

 velopment so much as building up — The signifi- 

 cant thing is the structure, not its component parts 

 — Reality is found in wholes, not in parts — Evo- 

 lution, to-day, does not point to a mechanistic uni- 

 verse — The ideal values are new creations — Not 

 what the world is made out of, but what it is made 

 into, is significant — Why take the atoms so seri- 

 ously? — Organization, not elements, the important 

 fact, because with organization emerges new prop- 

 erties and capacities. . . . Living beings not ag- 

 gregates of dead atoms, but organisms — Evolution 

 not the gospel of despair but of hope — At every 

 step it transcends mechanism — The universe is, 

 perhaps, an ever-expanding organism — Growth 

 and expansiveness illustrated in plant-life — The 

 conception of upward striving is essentially re- 

 ligious — Many now speak of "creative evolution" 

 — Mind not hidden in the simple responses of the 

 lower animals — Only this is sure: there will be 

 progress. . . . Mind: its magnificence — Spiritual 

 values not disclosed by "spirits," but by a half bil- 

 lion years of evolutionary growth — Mind loses no 

 worth or dignity from behaviorism — World move- 

 ment a process of realization — Ideal values may be 

 eternally real — Role of chance declining in modern 

 science — Some creative energy seems to be at 

 work — What is it.? — Life, a struggle to overcome 

 the past — Mind may be an ideal value evolved 

 by a creative power — Humanity will need some 

 future "great devotion." 



IX Psychology and the Thought of 



God by William McDougall . . 141 



How lifelong labors in psychology affect the au- 

 thor's attitude — The existence of God must be 

 treated as a question of fact — The true province 



