I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in hard science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.

We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.

It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.