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of the social interest the outer world attains a reality for sensation 
which it does not possess psychologically. . . . The social in- 
terest widens our individuality so that we accept the phenomena 
of the outer world as integrating parts of the ego.” 4 
“Tn general,” he says, “the development of the social interest 
depends on the existence of such conditions as permit the physio- 
logical and individual interests to take the background; the 
higher interests come forth in the measure that the lower appear 
to be secured. The physiological interest satisfied gives room for 
the intellectual side of the individual interest, and the narrower 
family development must be secured in order that the interest in 
social relations may become lively.” ? 
(e) The final mode of development of the inborn interest is the transcen- 
dental. Fear manifested in lower animals in the presence of unusual noises and 
terrifying phenomena of nature is a lower form of that which in man becomes 
religion.’ . . . In man this usually takes the form of a sense of dependence 
upon that Original Power which awakens his consciousness. Moreover this 
sense of dependence is suppressed only as a result of man’s attention being 
given entirely to the satisfaction of his physical needs, or even more fre- 
quently by the occupation of the mind in day-dreams as a result of a super- 
abundance of goods. 
These inborn interests impel the organism to activities looking 
toward their satisfaction. The satisfiers lie in the environment, 
physical and social, and in the case of the transcendental, not only 
in the environment but within the individual himself; i. e., the 
Urkraft is the background of all existence, and the conscious 
apprehension of this is the result of a correct interpretation of all 
experience including a direct intuition of the relationship existing 
between the individual consciousness and the Urkraft of which it 
is a part.® 
These interests become in a sense forces, i. e., an interest un- 
satisfied is a condition of mal-adaptation and gives rise to a feeling 
of unrest and of discomfort.’ The very nature of an organism is 
to act in the line of satisfying its interests or needs. An organism 
that did not thus react to such impulses would not survive.’ 
1 Erkenninis, p. 62. 4 Ibid., p. 64. 7 Ibid., p. 106. 
2 Thid., p. 62. 5 Ibid., p. 65. 
3 Tbid., p. 63. 6 [bid., p. 252. 
