468 JAMES R. ANGELL 



On the whole, then, psychologists will wish to speed the day 

 when psychic behavior can be analyzed exhaustively and cor- 

 related with the chemical and physical changes in the brain 

 upon which it depends. But theie will be more rather than 

 less need in that day for a thoiough-going dissection of the 

 psychic process itself, cairied out by such methods as may be 

 found adequate. Nor will there be any more eager searchers 

 for accurate knowledge of the brain activities which render 

 memory possible than will be found among the psychologists. 

 But they will hardly feel that a metaphor like 'associative 

 memory' is a satisfactory substitute tor what is thus desider- 

 ated. Even when the term is applied to strictly physical and 

 chemical activities, it tells us nothing we did not already know. 

 When Dr. Loeb, or any one of his scientific colleagues, is really 

 able to give us the inner chemical and physical facts of brain 

 action, our debt, already great and gladly acknowledged, will 

 be immensely increased. 



