Spencer Heath Archive

Item 637

Taping by Spencer MacCallum during conversation with Heath.

December, 1955

/Socionomy a Science More

Psychological than Physical/

     /This line of thought, that contract is a meeting of minds,/ tends to get the science of society farther and farther away from the physical sciences. The more you think about it, the more the science of society gets to be psychological and the less it has to do directly with material things. We can change our relationships one to another only by a psychological process of some kind, whereas our relationship to the material world requires the intervention of some material things — to move dirt and to move mountains, and to cut a path or whatever you do to your environment. That is a different category from men ganging up and cooperating, and aiding each other mutually. All that sort of thing is a psychological process.

”It’s agreement.”

Yes, it comes about through psychological processes. And by this psychological activity among men, they gain tre­mendous power jointly to do things to the physical world.