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the motto of one of our best-known culture fra- 

 ternities has it, " the guide of Ufe." 



THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FUTURE 



Finally, education, now perhaps the most uni- 

 versal and uniform of all the social institutions, 

 is now looking to psychology for guidance as 

 never before, and we are at present able to meet 

 this call in only a halting and partial way. Re- 

 ligion seems of late to be becoming strangely 

 docile to all the too httle we have to teach it. 

 Psychiatry, to which we should have at least 

 given a science of normal psychic life, is now in 

 danger of finding our texts of little avail in solv- 

 ing its problems, is building new foundations of 

 its own, and groAving weary of our sophistic sub- 

 tleties concerning parallelism and interaction and 

 the nature of feeling, conscience, etc. Few, even 

 of our recent experimental results, are available 

 for determining or influencing normahty or ab- 

 normality; our discussions of freedom, necessity, 

 or responsibility are too academic for use in crim- 

 inology. The great newly discovered continent 

 of the unconscious is still regarded by many mem- 

 bers of our guild as mystical, perhaps superhm- 

 inal, and its phenomena are used to cast augu- 

 ries as to whether the soul is independent of or 

 survives the body. The unconscious is really 

 like the submerged eight-ninths of an iceberg, 

 which is impelled by deeper currents in a denser 

 medium, and which the glittering summits that 



