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of twenty, ten and five. The right hand responded more favorably than 
the left. The average daily gain was greater for trials with five seconds rest 
than for ten or twenty. The amount of practise gain seems to depend upon 
the amount of fatigue which the work engenders. The practise gain for the 
second half of the tests was greater than for the first half, which seems to 
mean that practise at first consists in overcoming the inhibiting effects of 
fatigue. The fact that the five-second rest shows a greater average daily 
gain than the ten or twenty would seem to indicate that in a long series the 
five-second rest must prove the more favorable to work. When use is 
made of this test to make comparisons between high and low types of intellect 
and of normal with abnormal subjects, account must be taken of the degree 
of practise efficiency in which the normal class of subjects finds itself. 
Professor Kraepelin’s proposition that comparisons must be made between 
the various rates of practise gain or loss seems to hold good. (These obser¬ 
vations were taken and collated by Miss Batty, of the University of Nebraska.) 
Professor MacDougall said, in abstract: Experience in time is sometimes 
illustrated by the form of one dimensional space. The latter concept 
involves, directly or indirectly, such implications as motion in a right line; 
modification in the rate of such motion and reversibility in its direction; 
the determinateness of each point in the system and continuity of direction 
among all pairs of points. This paper is concerned with the development, 
of some of the consequences which would follow from applying this spatial 
conception to human experience. Free motion, projected in terms of time, 
would make any point of past or future realizable at will; while the condi¬ 
tions of a right line require that each intervening event find place in the 
series by which that point is reached. Modification of rate appears in 
intensive variations of experience as well as in primary acceleration or 
retardation. Reversal of direction calls for a change in the effective sign 
of experience. The conception of a right line requires a deterministic 
theory of conduct, but the relation of each new point to the direction of the 
preceding series represents the sense of inner consistency, or subjective 
free-will. The form of experience in time thus realizes, in part, the require¬ 
ments of the spatial conception, but, in part, its order radically departs 
therefrom. 
Professor Miller said, in abstract: In every-day life there are two ways of 
alluding to a man’s knowledge of himself; favorable and unfavorable. We 
say “only the man himself can answer that question,” some question about 
his motives or thoughts; on the other hand, we say “it would be well if a 
man could see himself as others see him.” To these two attitudes there 
correspond a philosophical theory and a psychological theory. The philo¬ 
sophical theory is that in the case of consciousness, appearance and reality 
