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One wonders whether it is expedient to introduce the elementary 

 student to the science of psychology from any special standpoint. In 

 our better medical schools we object to the teaching of anatomy and 

 physiology from the standpoint of the surgeon, the obstetrician, or 

 any other specialist; we do desire that the student shall know the whole 

 body as a working machine. Those who view their science thus artifi- 

 cially contracted must beware lest they in the end find themselves in 

 possession of a pseudo-science or of disjointed fragments of many 

 sciences. 



Indeed in viewing psychology exclusively from the standpoint of 

 radical behaviorism the disquieting fear continually arises that possibly 

 the beholder may find himself in the unhappy position of the venerable 

 Hebrew Lawgiver, who was permitted to look out from Nebo's lofty 

 height over into the Promised Land, which, however, for his sins he 

 was forbidden to enter. 



C. JUDSON HERBICK. 



