OR D I NARY M E ET [ NG * 



Pbof. Lionel S. Beale, F.R.C.P., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following candidates were put forward by the Council for 

 •election : — 



Life Member : — Rev. Dr. Cushing, President of the Baptist College, 

 Rangoon. 



Members : — Professor William Galloway, F.G.S. ; Alexander Finn, Esq., 

 H.B.M. Consul, Chicago. 



Associates : — Sir Thomas Wardle, F.G.S. ; J. Heald Jenkins, Esq. ; 

 Rev. W. H. Frazer, D.D. ; Rev. Alexander Irving, D.Sc. 



The following paper was read by the Author : — 



THE RIGHT WAY IN PSYCHOLOGY. By Rev. F. 

 Storrs Turner, B.A. 



1. Definitions. — What is psychology ? Different answers are 

 given. To Hume it meant the " science of Man," " of human 

 nature itself." Some living psychologists think that the subject- 

 matter of the science is " the phenomena of mind " (Sully) ; 

 *' the phenomena of consciousness " (Baldwin) ; " mental 

 process " (Stout) ; " psychical events " (Bosanquet). These 

 definitions are equivalent, or nearly so. They suggest funda- 

 mental questions — such as, a phenomenon of what and to vjliom ? 

 is mind identical with consciousness? is there any known being 

 called mind ? Wundt considers that the whole of experience, that 

 is, according to his notion of experience, all being of every kind, 

 is the province of psychology — although immediate experience 

 is its special subject-matter. Kiilpe takes psychology to be " the 

 adequate description of those properties of the data of experience 

 which are dependent upon experiencing individuals." Herbert 

 Spencer's definition stands apart. His psychology studies " the 

 connexion betiveen two connexions" — these being "the connexion 

 between the internal phenomena and the connexion between 

 the external phenomena." In another place we find it described 



* Monday, December 5th, 1901. 



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