Primaries

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.