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movements, ma}' implj' a tendency to imitation, what forms of imita- 

 tion are met with among the .superior animals — not to seek to know 

 whether animals imitate as men do, or if they have the same imitative 

 processes that we have. 



In spite of these few ol)iections, the merit of these investigations 

 appears ver}* great. The method which is here inaugurated and the 

 new views derived from them have already suggested other studies. 

 As to the author himself, this beginning is full of promise, and we 

 hope, in the interest of experimental psychology, that this promise 

 will bear more fruit. 



