1896.] Psychology. 599 
garded as introducing the centrosome or the archoplasm, and it is 
probable that the sperm revolves through 180° 
The male and the female pronuclei both move toward the centre of 
the egg and combine, but not till they have both gone through com- 
plex and similar changes, including the appearance and dissolution of 
an enormous nucleolus. The two nuclei finally fuse when each con- 
tains two long, thread-like chromosomes. 
The centrosome or archoplasm of the maturation spindle disappears 
and that of the sperm divides and furnishes the first cleavage spindle. 
At the equator of this spindle are found the four chromosomes, two 
of male and two of female origin. Each splits lengthwise and the eight 
separate, so that each daughter nucleus obtains two chromosomes of 
male and two of female origin. 
For many important facts not mentioned here the reader is referred 
to the two hundred remarkably clear figures and the judicial state- 
ments found in the original. 
PSYCHOLOGY. 
A Study in Morbid Psychology, with some reflections.— 
(Continued from page 518). With regard to the religious (?) ex- 
periences of Ansel Bourne, I am not so shallow as to think we can 
determine in the case of hallucinatory voices whether or no the 
phenomena are entirely subjective. An attitude of what the late 
G. J. Romanes has called “ pure agnosticism ” seems the only philosoph- 
ical one in these difficult cases." There has arisen a dogmatism in 
science as narrow and as mischievous as that of the straitest sect 
amongst theologians. 
1“No one is entitled to deny the possibility of what may be termed an organ of 
‘Spiritual discernment. In fact to do so would be to vacate the position of pure 
agnositicism in toto, and this even if there were no objective or strictly scientific 
evidence in favour of such an organ, such as we have in the lives of the saints, 
and in a lower degree, in the universality of the Jie sentiment.” A Candi 
Examination of Religion, p. 149, G. J. Romin 
asac class, 
They professed to be agnosti ies, at the very time he were aa evi 
that philosophy by their conduct.” Ibid., pp. 107-9. 
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