Robert H. Thouless

Psychology and Religion

provides us with an alternative explanation, which renders the hedonistic explanation unnecessary and improbable. Modern dynamic psychology has grown from these roots as a result of its absorption of four new classes of fact. The first of these (and perhaps the most important) is the evolutionary point of view ; we no longer regard the human mind as something essentially different from other minds. Observation and experiment on comparative psychology-of the psychology of animals and of