ON THE PSYCHO-PHYSICAL NIKW OF NATURE. 523 



forces that hem her in, resolve themselves at last into 

 lier overthrow. There is little of the grand style about 

 these new prism, pendulum, and chronograph philo- 

 sophers. They mean Imsiness, not chivalry. What 

 generous divination and that superiority in virtue which 

 was thousiht bv Cicero to irive a man the best insight 

 into nature have failed to do, their spying and scraping, 

 their deadly tenacity and almost diabolical cunning, will 

 doul)tless some day bring about. , . . The experimental 

 method has quite changed the face of the science, so far 

 as the latter is a record of the mere work done." 



Tt is, however, only fair to remark that it has never 

 been the ol)ject of any science, and can, tlierefore, no 

 more be the object of exact psychology, to deal with 

 everything at once, and that psycho-physical science has 

 quite as much right to postpone the question, AVhat is 

 mind ? ^ as Inological science has had to postpone, or 

 even to eliminate, the question, AVhat is life ? P.ut tliis 

 comparison reveals also the essential difference between 

 the exact science of life and tlie exact science of mind. 

 Of life we know only througli the observation of living 

 l)eings, but of mind we have not only the apparent 

 knowledge of its unity, which introspection forces upon 



1" Sensation, Retentiveness, As- ' shocked at Lange's 9/io« about a psy- 

 sociation by Contit;uity, — these are j clioh)gy without a soul, but the 



to bo our ultimate and sufficient 

 psychological conceptions : tiic 

 facts of feeling and conation are 

 resolved into facts of sensation ; 



' modern ' psychology is a psychol- 

 (jgy without even consciousness. 

 ' Content of consciousness' as much 

 as you like, but consciousness itself, 



and all mind-processes held to lie ci.nsciousness as activity, is not our 



not merely conditioned, but ex- affair ; we leave tliat to nietaphy- 



plaineil by brain-processes, which sics, say our 'modern' teachers." 



they accompany as epi-phenomena (Pi-of. J. Ward, on " Modern P.sy- 



or 'Begleit-erscheinungen.' It is chology," 'Mind,' 2nd series, vol. ii. 



not 80 long since the world was p. 5.'j). 



