Epilogue

Abstract

In the course of discussions of morphological research, I have often found that there are persons who immediately comprehend, while others disagree violently or seem to be at a loss as to what this type of research is really about. I fear that the latter do not recognize the forest for the trees, because morphological research is at the same time simpler than some seem to think, and again much more difficult than others imagine. Indeed, for an individual who is enslaved by traditions and by conventions and who cannot shake off prejudices altogether, the morphological mode of life is a practical impossibility. This is because the first essential step in the morphological method is to generalize the pattern, and a mind armoured in convention or subject to fear cannot conceive of or is emotionally unable to contemplate each of the possibilities that constitute the complete generalization of any problem or situation. A person of this character cannot adopt the morphological way of life which demands sacrifices that he is not willing to make. On the other hand, any individual, who is basically free, should not find it difficult to apply the methods of morphological research to all his problem.