. Adolescence : its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion and education. urbs the cartographer and tab-ulator of all the fields of human knowledge. The philosophictype of mind can do nothing without definitions at the start;the psychologist is content to describe and shrinks from defin-ing at all, at least, save at the end. The philosopher has his ste-reotyped and conventionalized pigeon-holes—idealism, realism,materialism, dogmatism, skepticism, positivism, intuitionalism,empiricism, and the rest, and if he is above the partizanshipthat uses
. Adolescence : its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion and education. urbs the cartographer and tab-ulator of all the fields of human knowledge. The philosophictype of mind can do nothing without definitions at the start;the psychologist is content to describe and shrinks from defin-ing at all, at least, save at the end. The philosopher has his ste-reotyped and conventionalized pigeon-holes—idealism, realism,materialism, dogmatism, skepticism, positivism, intuitionalism,empiricism, and the rest, and if he is above the partizanshipthat uses the isms not his own as epithets, he classifies all think-ers, ancient and contemporary, under one or another, bring-ing these distinctions into the foreground as introductory orpropaedeutic courses, of which we have now so many illustra-tions in current text-books and courses. The psychologist. See an exquisite illustration in Judds Genetic Psychology for Teachers, NewYork, 1903, which decries all genetic evolution save only that which comes fromthe analysis of 50 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE. holding that all thinking men are all of these in differing pro-portion and are any one of them at most, as it were, only by asmall majority, if they are not dwarfed or maimed, would, inaching, bring his pupils into a relation of sympathetic appre-ciation with each standpoint without bias or partiality; both tothis end and also for pedagogic reasons, he defines and differ-nti^tes these standpoints only after a broad basis of knowl-dge has made them by turns, though unconsciously, but ashcttly as possible, critics, pessimists, optimists, ontologists,mepomenologists, materialists, idealists, and all the rest. Okens organosophy, assuming that animals are but fetal6rms of man, classified radiates as intestinal, annelids as res-piratory, fishes as osseous, amphibia as muscular, birds as nerv-ous animals, etc., calling each a crystallized thought or wordof God. Most p
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