In the course of the centuries the naive self-love of men has had to submit to two major blows at the hands of science. The first was when they learned that our earth was not the center of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness. . . . The second blow fell when biological research destroyed man's supposedly privileged place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature. . . . But human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master of its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind. . . . Hence arises the general revolt against our science, the disregards of all considerations of academic civility and the releasing of the opposition from every restraint of impartial logic.
Copyright © 1997 by Margaret Muckenhoupt
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