ABSTRACT
This chapter considers most fundamental of questions for the student of behavior and development. The study of human development is literally a science of miracles. Human life is as much the past as it is the present and the future. From a tiny creature—capable only of the most primitive functions—comes a person capable of language, love, thought, art, and science. From infant organism to cultured person, human development is a series of miracles, one after another. Developments in the emerging field of sociobiology even suggest genetic mechanisms for both good and evil, altruism and selfishness. There are ample grounds for presuming the existence of evil in human behavior. The concern about the nature of being human, and the conception of good and evil, is alien to most of what we call social science. There is a kind of shadow government, a counterforce to the dominant view, that has questioned the moral limitations of social science since its inception.
