It has been truly said that we attain
no power over Nature until we learn natural laws and conform and adapt
ourselves to them.
The strength of the human race has been its ability not merely to
subjugate the forces of Nature, but to adapt itself to those it could
not conquer. And even this subjugation, science tells us, has not
resulted from any attempt to suppress, prohibit, or eradicate these
forces, but rather to transform blind and undirected energies to our own
purposes.
These great natural forces, science now asserts, are not all external.
They are surely concealed within the complex organism of the human being
no less than outside of it. These inner forces are no less imperative,
no less driving and compelling than the external forces of Nature. As
the old conception of the antagonism between body and soul is broken
down, as psychology becomes an ally of physiology and biology, and
biology joins hands with physics and chemistry, we are taught to see
that there is a mysterious unity between these inner and outer forces.
They express themselves in accordance with the same structural, physical
and chemical laws. The development of civilization in the subjective
world, in the sphere of behavior, conduct and morality, has been
precisely the gradual accumulation and popularization of methods which
teach people how to direct, transform and transmute the driving power of
the great natural forces.
Psychology is now recognizing the forces concealed in the human
organism.
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