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of moi'e exact science a certain looseness of thought. Thus on p. 56, 

 we are told that the apple fallen from the tree may be caught in the 

 hand or made to rise to a height greater than that from which it 

 has fallen " by a force which reverses the law of gravitation." 

 Here the efied of gravity is intercepted, but by the expenditure of 

 the energy required to intercept it ; and a little thought will show 

 that gravitation in this way takes its toll, just as much as if it 

 continued to act as an accelerating force upon the falling pome. 

 And that remark about the coconut " clim1)ing up into the tree 

 against all laws of gravitation " is, to say the least, a tax upon one's 

 patience. Everyone knows that it was made where it grew by the 

 combination of forces employed in the physiology of the life of the 

 tree, some more, some less amenable to the laws of gravitation. 

 The fiction of the " Divine arm " holding the axe-head up in the 

 water, smacks too much of the crude " carpenter theory " of Creation, 

 and is altogether unscientific. Such Idchetes do not strengthen the 

 claim of Psychology to be considered a true Science. 



