judgment is unreliable and nonobjective, because it is his own, a hundred unreliable, nonobjective judgments will
not yield a reliable, objective one.
So much for the mystique of the "publicly observable."
The behaviorist assault on consciousness merely represents the extreme of a more general trend in modern
psychology and philosophy: the tendency to regard consciousness or mind with suspicious hostility, as a disturbing,
"unnatural" phenomenon which somehow must be explained away or, at the last, barred from the realm of the
scientifically knowable.
For centuries, mystics have asserted that phenomena of consciousness are outside the reach of reason and science.
The modern " scientific" apostles of the anti-mind agree. While proclaiming themselves exponents of reason and
enemies of supernaturalism, they announce, in effect, that only insentient matter is "natural"—and thereby
surrender man's consciousness to mysticism. They have conceded to the mystics a victory which the mystics could
not have won on their own.
It is from such neomysticism that a genuinely scientific psychology must reclaim man's mind as a proper object of
rational study.