. Thinking, feeling, doing . y-chology, which we might call the anatomical. Arisingfrom crude materialism, it has sought to parcel out men-tal life among different portions of the brain. It hasproduced such monstrosities as mental physiology;physiology of mind, etc. It speaks of the differentmental faculties as seated in various portions of the sur-face of the brain. The evil this movement has done is very great. Ithas led to a habit of wild speculation concerning memory cells, association fibers, etc. Concern-ing what goes on in the brain in company with mental The New Psychology. 291 process
. Thinking, feeling, doing . y-chology, which we might call the anatomical. Arisingfrom crude materialism, it has sought to parcel out men-tal life among different portions of the brain. It hasproduced such monstrosities as mental physiology;physiology of mind, etc. It speaks of the differentmental faculties as seated in various portions of the sur-face of the brain. The evil this movement has done is very great. Ithas led to a habit of wild speculation concerning memory cells, association fibers, etc. Concern-ing what goes on in the brain in company with mental The New Psychology. 291 processes we know nothing more than general writers of psychologies—especially in America—generally disdain to speak of the relations of mentalprocesses to each other. They first turn the sensationsinto molecular movements (this is a favorite phrasebecause its meaning is so deliciously indefinite and itsalliteration so sonorously professorial) ; then they setcomplicated processes running along nerve fibers to other. Fier. Lecture-room in the Vale Laboratory. cells ; here there are more which are retranslated intomental process would be verymany translations, especiallyprocesses are, as the anatomistknown languages. As would be expected, it iswho commits this fault. He is molecular movements,mental phenomena. Alikely to suffer from sowhen the intermediatewill tell you, utterly un- not the brain anatomistafter facts concerning the 292 Thinking, Feeling, Doing. Three stages ofspeculation. structure of the brain. Experimental psychology canbe of great service to him, especially in the pathology ofmind, where brain disease is accompanied by mental dis-turbance or mental troubles disastrously affect the men are ardent and valuable friends of our , the subject of psychology has passed throughthree stages of metaphysical speculation : the doublydistilled metaphysical speculation of the pre-Herbartian Psychology andphilosophy.
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