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It has thus survived and profited by a volume of honest criticism 

 which would have swamped a less vital movement, and that, too, 

 by many of the very ablest of our craft who did not at first fully 

 understand its scope and value. Now, although we might point 

 with justifiable pride to its books, journals, chairs, its body of re- 

 sults that all accept, we believe that far greater results lie in the 

 near future, and sometimes some of us indulge in dreams of a new 

 dispensation of psychology doctrine with evolution more evolved 

 as its centre. 



Again, a new alliance is now cemented with the psychological 

 side of anthropology and even ethnology. With almost no aca- 

 demic representation or support, it is our government that has 

 developed a body of scholars that in the study of the Indian 

 have, in the language of another, "set the world its best exam- 

 ple of gathering and recording the myths, customs, rites, occupa- 

 tions, and modes of life, thought, and feeling of the decadent, yet 

 the most representative of all the races of the stone age." Psych- 

 ologists are learning to profit by this work and also to extend 

 their interest to every such record of the sentiments, habits, so- 

 cial organizations, and superstitions of primal man. As a natural- 

 ist delights in new species, so we more and more both need and 

 desire to profit by every new account that sheds light on how 

 the remotest aborigine thinks, feels, and acts, and we do it with 

 a psychic tension and exhilaration as if some great correlation with 

 other allied fields impended. We feel a closer bond with sociology 

 because it, too, is coming rapidly into rapport with anthropology 

 and finding the key to so many of its problems in tribal and other 

 consanguineous forms of early society. The reciprocal suggestive- 

 ness of this department with psychogenesis is already beginning 

 to bear fruit. 



So in mental and moral alienation we have a few precious and 

 detached studies of psychic symptoms in individuals that are almost 

 classic. The older epoch-making interpretations of epilepsy by 

 Hughlings- Jackson, new views of hysteria, paranoia, a choice, fresh 

 little literature on dementia praecox, a large collection of records 

 of delusions, hallucinations, automatisms, and other phenomena of 

 the border-land between sanity and insanity gathered at the 

 behoof of an obsolescent hypothesis but interpreted in a way that 

 has happily called attention to subliminal processes and also the 

 methods of their exploitation by hypnotism; many of these phe- 

 nomena are devolutionary, others are normal states magnified 

 by disease as if it were a microscope. Criminology, meanwhile, 

 has shown us feral man in our midst, and given a copious anthology 

 of facts about degeneration and perversion, many of which could 

 now be used to make the teaching of practical ethics more inter- 



