I9I4-] BEHAVIORIST VIEWS IT." 17 



the behaviorist will, in matters of selection, emphasis, arrangement, 

 terminology, perspective, differ from general psychology just as be- 

 haviorism itself differs from general biology. ^"^ 



We thus conclude that to say, as was said above, " psychology 

 would begin where a completed behaviorism left off," is really to say 

 too little. The psychology which is correlated with behaviorism 

 begins when behaviorism begins, and the fortunes of the two are 

 bound up in the same bundle. Psychobiology will run the same 

 course as psychophysiology and psychophysics. It is now, I suppose, 

 in its first phase, when pioneer work" brings in gross and tangible re- 

 turns. Next will come the period of revision, of elaboration of 

 details, — a period of discouragement, perhaps, as the former was a 

 period of elation. And then will follow the period of slow and 

 steady progress, varied by a certain amount of wholesome interrup- 

 tion. Meanwhile introspective psychology, which is now entering 

 upon this third stage of its scientific career, will go quietly about its 

 task, wishing the new movement all success, but declining — with the 

 mild persistence natural to matters of fact — either to be eliminated 

 or to be ignored. 



36 At this point we become involved in the controversy regarding the 

 possibility of an " animal psychology." I have no wish to avoid that issue, 

 though I must postpone its full discussion for another time. I believe that 

 an animal psychology is definitely possible; I think that with the law of 

 continuity as basal presupposition, and with the argument from analogy for 

 use in the concrete case, the science may be established. Meantime I have 

 elsewhere expressed my agreement with Watson that there can, in strictness, 

 be no objective criterion of the psychical (A, i6i). 



PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC, LHI. 2I3 B, PRINTED JUNE 18, I9I4. 



