Excerpt from The Journal Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Vol. 10: January-December, 1913 This general scientific attitude involves, among other things, the scientific view of man, which I frankly accept. I see no good reason why we should not make an independent study of man to-day, and make that basal in our interpretation of men's relations to one another, than that Plato or Aristotle should have made such a study in their _day. But such an attitude is far-reaching. It is said that Spencer was the first to suggest an evolution of the soul parallel with the evolution of the physical self.2 If one accepts this, and it seems to go along with the general theory of evolution, then one is on the opposite side of the fence from Plato and Aristotle and those who have been especially influenced by their views. This cuts wide and deep, and is too little appreciated. In connection with the field of ethics, I discuss the relation of ethics to the other fields of thought, especially psychology, sociology, and religion. The relation to psychology raises the question of the kind of psychology, and the answer that I find is experimental psychology. That is, of course, recent, and there is much as yet undetermined. But the relation of ethics as a variable, dependent upon scientific psychology, itself a variable, is, to my mind, prefer able to any static relation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.