Only the most rigid self-examination will disclose to us the extent in which the jungle and the Stone Age are still active in our games, our politics and our creeds; how many of our motives are still those of primitive man, and how many of our social institutions offer him a discreet opportunity of self-expression.
Here, as it seems to me, is a point at which the old thoughts of religion and the new thoughts of psychology may unite and complete one another.

Here the scientific conception of the psyche is merely restating the fundamental Christian paradox, that man is truly one, a living, growing spirit, the creature and child of the Divine Life; and yet that there seem to be in him, as it were, two antagonistic natures--that duality which St.Paul calls the old Adam and the new Adam.

The law of the flesh and the law of the spirit, the earthward-tending life of mere natural impulse and the quickening life of re-directed desire, the natural and the spiritual man, are conceptions which the new psychologist can hardly reject or despise.
True, religion and psychology may offer different rationalizations of the facts.

That which one calls original sin, the other calls the instinctive mind: but the situation each puts before us is the same.

"I find a law," says St.Paul, "that when I would do good evil is present with me.