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have gone far wrong if we date the first overt attempts to bring 

 these complexes under experimental control from 1902, 1901, 1908 

 and 1903 respectively, — if we say, at any rate, that their experi- 

 mental study belongs to the present century. And we have already 

 worn such topics threadbare? I should rather judge that we have 

 hardly touched their fringe. How many decades or centuries they 

 will engage the attention of psychologists, I do not know; the im- 

 portant thing is that we should do thoroughly such work upon them 

 as can be compassed in a generation. Our descendants may ask so 

 much of us ; but we owe them nothing more ; and though I also hope 

 that two hundred years hence other questions may have replaced 

 those of visual attributes and imaginal characters, of orientation in 

 the rat and of the homing sense of terns, I am far more deeply con- 

 cerned to sift the materials of discussion than to hurry debate to a 

 conclusion.^^ 



There remain the seceding branches, experimental pedagogy and 

 the rest. In their regard, I think, the unhistorical nature of Wat- 

 son's paper renders his exposition seriously misleading; it is psy- 

 chology, and not behaviorism, that has shaped their course ; and it is 

 psychology, and not behaviorism, that they still look to for guidance. 

 Meumann's Lectures, for example, are offered as an introduction to 

 experimental pedagogy and its psychological foundations; the work 

 is penetrated with psychology ; the pedagogical experiment is said to 

 be " for the most part the psychological experiment applied to the 

 developing and working school-child."-^^ But it is largely owing to 

 Meumann that experimental pedagogy flourishes. Rivers chose the 

 subject of his Croonian Lectures with the desire to show that ex- 

 perimental psychology may be of service to medicine. ^^ Stern, who 



21 It is, perhaps, beyond my province to defend functional psychology; 

 but I should not like to have written this sentence: "It is rather interesting 

 that no functional psychologist has carefully distinguished between ' percep- 

 tion ' (and this is true of the other psychological terms as well) as employed 

 by the systematist, and ' perceptual process ' as used in functional psychol- 

 ogy" (A, 165). What, then, of Brentano, and of the many psychologists who 

 have been inspired by him? 



22 E. Meumann, " Vorlesungen zur Einfiihrung in die experimentelle 

 Padagogik und ihre psychologischen Grundlagen," I., 191 1, 27. 



23 W. H. R. Rivers, "The Influence of Alcohol and Other Drugs on 

 Fatigue," 1908, i, 121. 



