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mystic, and a worse nickname — that of 

 "necrologist." 



Initiation into Psychology. — How is the 

 biologist, trained in the dissecting-room, the 

 laborator}^ 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 vitalists, 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 naturalist of us all is not far more at 

 home with Darwin when he is in his field 

 watching his earthworms, in his garden 

 watching the bees, in his greenhouse among 

 his insectivorous or moving plants, or in his 

 study writing "The Origin of Species," 

 than when already as a youth upon the 

 "Beagle," he was keenly collecting data 

 which eventually formed the foundation of 

 his "Expression of the Emotions in Man 

 and Animals," a masterwork of compara- 

 tive psychology; or, as a grandfather in his 

 easy-chair, keenly and kindly watching the 



