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ing physical and chemical, structural and 

 functional inquiries onwards to new triumphs 

 of analysis; but also, from the other side, that 

 of tracing the psychic process deeper and 

 deeper, into the very germs and origins of life. 

 In a word, then, it is for the mechanistic 

 biologist to cease from scoffing at the vitalist 

 as a " mere mystic," and to set about master- 

 ing psychology until he can turn scientific 

 clearness upon his vagueness. Till then he 

 but lays himself open to a counter-sneer 

 from the mystic, and a worse nickname that 

 of " necrologist." 



INITIATION INTO PSYCHOLOGY. How is the 

 biologist, trained in the dissecting-room, the 

 laboratory, the museum, the herbarium, or 

 even in the garden or the field, to get at the 

 psychological point of view, even when he 

 begins to feel that he here has something 

 to learn, that he in fact requires it, if he is 

 to be a biologist indeed ? Even in Bergson, 

 much more in the German vital ists, there is too 

 much of the intangible. Let him begin with 

 Darwin himself, and he may soon feel, that 

 like many an admiring disciple before now, 

 he has not grasped the fully rounded thought 

 of his own master. With rare exceptions, 

 like Lloyd Morgan for instance, what natural- 

 ist of us all is not far more at home with 



