een. able subject for a scient 
may study it without a too uneasy sense of philo 
heresy and guilt. 
The writer must confess not only to the absence of an 
cial reverence for the supposed axiom, but also to the 
ence of a conviction that it is false, the truth being 
whatever feature of any animal, say John Smith, of 
Sapiens, is studied — its length, its color of hair, its 
temperature, its toothache, its anxiety, or its think 
9 x 7—the attitude and methods of the student may 
erly be substantially the same. 
Of the six facts in the illustration just given, + 
three would by the traditional view be all much a 
study, and all much unlike any of the first thre 
same kind of science, physical science, would be po 
the first three and impotent for the last three (save 
facts about certain physical facts which ‘ paralleled 
Conversely one kind of science, psychology, woulc 
traditional view deal with the last three, but have 
~to say about the first three. 
_ But is ‘here in actual fact any such radical di 
‘of these six facts as objects of science? Take « 
of science with respect to them, for example, ident 
A score of scientific men, including John Smith hi 
asked to identify John’s stature at a given mogfe 
observes it carefully, getting, let us say, as me#°arc 
inches, 72.11, 72.05, 72.08, 72.09, 72.11, etc. 
In the case of color of hair each observes as we. 
reports being brown, light brown, brown, light 
between light brown and brown, and so forth. 
In the case of body temperature, again, each 
as before, there being the ~<~ne variability in the 
but Joh 7jav.a/so obs ‘second wav, not *~ 
