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disastrous to symmetrical development. This type of figure is 

 seen at its best in such skaters as the Donahues, McCormick, the 

 old-time professional, who still skates a fast race although now 

 forty years of age, and in Wilson Breen, a professional, who has 

 been a winner of much gold and glory by means of his long legs 

 and powerful thighs. 



The conclusion that speed skating alone is not a good exercise 

 to develop a well-built, symmetrical man will be patent to any 

 one who reviews the facts. If indulged in, it should be, as done 

 by McCulloch, in conjunction with other forms of athletics 

 which bring into action the muscles of the arm, calf, shoulders, 

 and chest. 



SUGGESTIBILITY, AUTOMATISM, AND KINDRED 

 PHENOMENA.* 



BY W. EOMAINE NEWBOLD, PH. D., 



ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THB TNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



I. MENTAL CO-ORDINATION AND ORGANIZATION. 



THE thoroughgoing parallelism of mind and brain may be 

 regarded as an accepted principle of current psychology. 

 There remain, it is true, a few psychologists who dispute it, and 

 many of those who accept it as a working principle refuse to re- 

 gard it as final. It is conceivable, say they, that when our knowl- 

 edge is more complete we shall discover that the relation of mind 

 and brain is very different from what we now suppose it to be. 

 Yet we may be sure that the facts upon which the doctrine of 

 parallelism rests will never be set aside by any new discoveries, 

 and will find their place in that final theory toward which we are 

 slowly moving. 



It is somewhat surprising that few, even of those who accept 

 this theory as a working hypothesis, have endeavored to carry it 

 out into all its logical implications and to see how far they will 

 fit the actual facts. It is my own belief that the more thoroughly 

 this is done the more probable does it appear that every mental 

 state has its accompanying physical process, and the more rigor- 

 ously we apply the dynamic conceptions suggested by our scanty 

 knowledge of these physical processes to their accompanying 



* I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the recent French and English writers on 

 these topics, especially to Pierre Janet, with whose theory as developed in his work, 

 L'Automatisme Psychologique, the above doctrines are essentially identical. It should be 

 noted, however, that Janet expressly repudiates any attempt to bring his psychological 

 theory into connection with our psycho-physiological speculations. 



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