EVOLUTION AND PSYCHOLOGY 



gated by the study of behavior, intelligence by 

 massed instances of sagacity, and not by analysis 

 under old rubrics. While he would have wel- 

 comed all the illuminating experiments and tests 

 under controlled conditions, which have lately 

 given us such a wealth of insight, he would prob- 

 ably have preferred careful observations of ani- 

 mals afield in their accustomed habitat. Let us 

 psychologists find in this celebration motivation 

 to re-read his masterful contributions to our sci- 

 ence, for nothing in our perhaps aU too copious 

 hterature so grows upon the mind by frequent 

 reperusal; and thus only shaU we profit to the 

 full, as we have been tardier than the biologists 

 in doing, by the method, direction, and inspira- 

 tion he so abundantly offers us. 



GENETIC SYNTHESIS THE NEED OF MODERN 

 PSYCHOLOGY 



Probably most psychologists in our day accept 

 evolution in a general way and have only praise 

 for DarAvin; yet I can think of but very few 

 whose interest in the studies of the soul is pre- 

 dominately evolutionary or very much influenced 

 even by Herbert Spencer. Students of instinct 

 have profited most here, although many of their 

 studies are made under artificial and highly- 

 specialized aspects, with too httle reference to 

 life history and habits of the species in the state 

 of nature. The human mind is, for the most 

 part, now studied introspectively, not only by the 



