44 Life and Matter [chap, m 



philosophic opinion of to-day, it is natural 

 to find that of orthodox psychology and 

 psychologists he is contemptuous : 



" Most of our so-called c psychologists ' have 

 little or no knowledge of these indispensable 

 foundations of anthropology anatomy, histology, 

 ontogeny, and physiology. . . . Hence it is that 

 most of the psychological literature of the day is 

 so much waste-paper " (p. 34). 



"What we call the soul is, in my opinion, 

 a natural phenomenon ; I therefore consider 

 psychology to be a branch of natural science a 

 section of physiology. Consequently, I must 

 emphatically assert from the commencement that 

 we have no different methods of research for that 

 science than for any of the others " (p. 32). 



In this difficult Science of Psychology he 

 evidently feels himself quite at home. He 

 assumes easily and gratuitously that there 

 is a material substance at the root of 

 all mental processes whatever called by 

 Clifford ' mind-stufF,' (see, however, Chapter 

 IV. below,) and he then proceeds to lay 

 down the law concerning ancient difficulties 

 as follows : 



"We shall give to this material basis of all 



