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proton aggregates and the changes which occur in 

 their special relationships." They believed that the 

 laws of physics and chemistry are sufficient to explain 

 everything in nature, including man and his social re- 

 lationships. 



Of course religion could find little place in such a 

 world view, for the very foundations of religion rest 

 in the belief in God and in the reality and sanctity of 

 ideal values. But it was not behaviorism itself which 

 was antagonistic to religion but the world view of cer- 

 tain radical behaviorists, with the implication that 

 such a view was a necessary outgrowth of their psy- 

 chology. And it is this radical kind of behaviorism 

 which in some circles has brought the word into dis- 

 repute, and not the basal theory itself. 



In the present chapter It is not my purpose to in- 

 quire into the truth of behaviorism nor to discuss at 

 all the points of difference between the schools. I 

 have in mind only to ask whether the general theory 

 of behaviorism, if it should turn out to be true, would 

 imply a mechanistic or materialistic theory of life and 

 mind, or threaten in any way the reality of mind, or 

 question Its dignity and worth. And It Is Important to 

 try to answer these questions, for the behavlorlst point 

 of view, though not that of the extremists. Is coming 

 more and more to prevail. As Professor Jastrow says 

 In a recent article, "Evidently we are all behaviorists 

 but how we Interpret our behavioristic obligations may 

 determine largely the trend of our psychological In- 

 terests."^ 



1 Joseph Jastrow, "The Conflict of the Psychologies," The Scientific 

 Monthly, November, 1929. 



