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autogenetic processional of growth; but, if the 

 goal is still dim and far, it is unmistakable, and 

 as we slowly and surely approach it, the genetic 

 psychologist feels it beckoning, calhng, and in- 

 spiring, almost like a new muse. This has intro- 

 duced a temporal perspective or new dimension 

 into a field where most preceding and even pres- 

 ent studies have all been in the flat surface of the 

 present state of adult consciousness. This is sup- 

 ported by, though still but very imperfectly cor- 

 related with, the studies of animal instinct on the 

 one hand, and with those of the myth, custom, and 

 behef of primitive races on the other. It already 

 suggests to the many laboratory studies of the 

 affective hfe (based on the method of controlUng 

 the conditions of very slight variations of emo- 

 tional tone exigously made and based only on a few 

 adult experts) , a more excellent way, which would 

 tend to bring psychology back to the study of 

 human hfe as it is lived out, where it is hottest, 

 most intense and passional with love, anger, fear, 

 hate, jealousy, grim and dour struggles with sin, 

 wrought out with sweat, blood, and supreme 

 effort, with perhaps the life and death of the indi- 

 vidual or even the race at stake. Here, rather 

 than in the isolation of the laboratory or the 

 study, hes the heart of a psychology that touches 

 life and that really avails and has worth and 

 value, because it is in line with the eternal pow- 

 ers and is, in a word, a true, natural history of 

 the soul, and can make " philosophy " again, as 



