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The great burden which keeps humanity from the vital step to maturity and a peaceful society is the burden of inferiority, of guilt and fear. The force which, according to Chisholm, creates these burdens is morality, the concept of right and wrong, the poison described and warned against in the Bible as 'the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil'. Freedom from moralities means freedom to observe, to think and behave sensibly, to the advantage of the person and of the group, free from outmoded types of morality and from the magic fears of our ancestors. It is the psychiatrist's responsibility to stop prostituting man's noblest and highest development, his intellect, to the service of guilt, fear and shame.
In his discussion, Henry A. Wallace recognizes that Chisholm has risen above the realm of morality in a Presbyterian sense. Wallace bestows special compliments on what he calls 'the protective coloration' with which psychiatrists surround themselves. For humanity, it is a much greater moral challenge to learn 'to live joyously with abundance than to learn to live grimly with scarcity'.
G. B. Chisholm has made a courageous attempt to develop dynamic psychiatry into psychiatric dynamite.