ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis has revealed the previously unsuspected power both of the primitive urges to action and of the restraining belief-structure. An intellectual formulation of such a belief must, indeed, be of a highly abstract nature, and is beyond the capacity of any but a highly trained mind. Equally, if science is thought to mean no more than an exclusive attention to the data of physics, chemistry and physiology, and to demand the dismissal of all other aspects of the human experience, it also appears a threadbare and puerile belief. But the scientific attitude of mind is a much more profound embodiment of the human spirit than such a shallow view suggests. The formation of any human society is based essentially on some degree of acceptance of authority. In the human form of the society, this restraint is at least partly conscious.
