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and indeed many other matters. Even where In- would disagree, 

 tin- discussion is interesting and often valuable. 



Little reading of the book is necessary to show, what has been 

 evident from recent papers, that the author is a hero worshipper, 

 and that at present the hero of his tale is (most deservedly in 

 a book on the object ive study of behavior ' Jacques Loeb. Verkes 

 is given a place as a worthy follower of the master, while the 

 present reviewer takes the role of the villain in the plot. It 

 will be worth while to translate Bohn's characterization of three 

 American investigators, as giving an example of his style of 

 thought and expression. I quote from an article in the Revue 

 S< i< ntiji<iu<. of May l(i, 1908, which gives some picturesque fea- 

 tures not taken into the book. 



I have pronounced the name of Galileo; I can not resist the tempta- 

 tion to inscribe by the side of this name that of the biologist Jacques 



Certainly since (ialileo times have changed. No longer are revolu- 

 tionary savants persecuted, at least not openly. There are free coun- 

 tries such as America for men such as Jacques Loeb. Beyond the 

 Rocky Mountains, on the shores of the most beautiful bay in the 

 world, at Berkeley, opposite San Francisco, are the laboratories whither 

 the Californians have called the great biologist; it is in a scene truly 

 fairy-like that Loeb works without ceasing and whence he sends forth 

 the ideas which pass through the world to give a significance to 

 biological researches. 5 



However, in America they continued to gather facts. And a savant 

 of great worth, Yerkes, completed without noise the work of Loeb 4 

 by searching out, with a spirit of method truly remarkable, how asso- 

 ciations are formed in animals; his two memoirs on the acquisition of 



as models to all those who attack the same questions. Yerkes has 

 shown a quality that is ran- among psychologists; that of not attempting 



has endeavored constantly to establish facts with all the rigor desirable 

 and to give to them wise interpretations. 



Suddenly 7 Jennings appeared on the scene; he presented a system; 



8 The precise reference here seems to be to "the phenomena of association 

 little before. 



