210 E. B. TITCHENER— ETHNOLOGICAL TESTS OF SENSATION. 



Summarizing we have: 



2 judged as 2 15 times I judged as i 14 times 



2 judged as i i time i judged as 2 2 times 



I need not say that there was no hint of duahty in the perceptive form 

 which underlay the judgment "two"; I yielded, without compunction, to the 

 stimulus-error. Moreover, since I was interpreting and not describing, I can 

 say very little of the perceptive forms themselves. The one-point impres- 

 sions were solidly homogeneous, and often had a trace of sting in them ; the 

 two-point impressions were duller and coarser, and at times gave a hint of 

 something like granulation. I did not as a rule think of the two-point im- 

 pressions as larger, more diffuse than the others, though I recall that the 

 one-points with sting were rather definitely small. 



The range of McDougall's results might thus be accounted for. 

 We have still to discuss the fact that the average limen of the Mur- 

 ray Islanders is smaller than that of the Englishmen. 



Rivers, writing of these same Murray Islanders, lays great stress 

 upon " the over-development of the sensory side of mental life "^° in 

 the savage. Myers, dealing with a like theme, points out the inter- 

 pretative character of their sensory interests. " Probably the mode 

 of life led by primitive peoples and their general mental status com- 

 bine to make them more aware of and attentive to the majority of 

 external stimuli than we ourselves are. ... A faint odor may be 

 simultaneously perceptible to the civilized and to the uncivilized in- 

 dividual. To the latter it will be full of meaning and so will at once 

 engage his attention; for the opposite reason it is apt to escape the 

 notice of the former." Let us look at McDougall's results in the 

 light of these general statements. The task set to the Murray 



10 R, 44 f ., 64. 



II R, 181 f. 



