CONTENTS 



FACE 



formly — So do the laws governing the evolution 

 of life. . . . Man, a piece of the universal world- 

 stuff — Power displayed through cerebral hemi- 

 spheres of his brain — Given some one else's body 

 and brain our development would have been dif- 

 ferent — Enormous difference due to inheritance — 

 With more detailed knowledge man car; control his 

 future — And that future extends for thousands of 

 millions of years. . . . We are relative beings — 

 Minds and bodies are devices to assist us in the 

 struggle for existence — We are entrapped in our 

 own natures — How will religion assimilate mod- 

 ern knowledge? . . , The limitations of science — 

 Science is simply one other way of handling the 

 chaos of experience — Accuracy of fact is secondary 

 to art — Science seeks laws and rules — One law ex- 

 plains an indefinite number of happenings — In- 

 sistence of research on verification, lest man's 

 imagination make a fool of him — These methods 

 alone will enable man to control his destiny — But 

 science is partial, morally neutral, and has no scale 

 of values — When research hands on a new idea it 

 is done — It is for religion to take the new idea and 

 apply to it a scale of values — Science gives men 

 new knowledge; religion helps men apply it — 

 Conflict has resulted because religion has been op- 

 posed to the new knowledge — Many leaders of re- 

 ligion, however, are not afraid of it — Science may 

 destroy theologies but it cannot destroy reli- 

 gion. . . . Let religion and science make friendly 

 adjustments — Let religion assimilate the discover- 

 ies of research — What man will do with enormous 

 powers science is placing in his hands is an alarm- 

 ing problem — Religion must help solve that prob- 

 lem — The great aim of this human experiment is 

 to make life more worth the living — Both religion 

 and science have concessions to make — Let them 

 join hands on the basis of the infinite capacity of 

 life. 



VIII Idealistic Confessions of a Behav- 

 lORiST by George Thomas White 

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Religion concerned at the theory of behaviorism — 

 It is said to teach materialism — It is said to be a 

 passing theory — But are these indictments cor- 

 rect? — Behaviorists study emotions. . . . So-called 

 radical behaviorists — They put psychology on a 

 level with other sciences of nature — They went be- 

 yond and called the body a response mechanism 

 — What consciousness is — The radical behaviorists 



