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Communications. 

 From Professor STACKPOOL E. O'Dell : — 



I read with interest " The Right Way in Psychology," by the 

 Rev. F. Storrs Turner, B.A. 



I am thankful to the author for such enlightenment as his paper 

 vivos, especially for his definition— "Study," as preferable to science. 

 We know so little about the soul or spirit, except in relation to 

 mind, that probably "mental philosophy " might well take the place 

 of " psychology. " 



All our knowledge of psychology is strictly confined to mental 

 manifestations. Rut this knowledge is extensive. The history of 

 nations, science, religion and art, with all that has ever been made 

 or manufactured, is the result of the unseen powers we call mind. 

 From ancient pyramids or temples to modern London we see the 

 manifestations of the spirit or mind of man. This is what 

 psychologists should study. Mental manifestations, for the pur- 

 pose of developing them in the formation of character, in the 

 maintenance of mental health, in the alleviation or curing of the 

 insane, in the education of children, in the government of nations, 

 and the general well-being of all peoples morally, mentally and 

 socially. If in some measure psychology does not lead to such 

 desirable ends, it is not justified in its existence as either a science 

 or study. At the same time I would like to state that my know- 

 ledge of psychology or mental philosophy, leads me to the belief that 

 it is capable of all I here mention and more, much more. 



Remarks by D. Riddle, Esq., M.R.C.S.E. : — 



I trust I may be allowed to supplement the discussion on Mr. 

 Storrs Turner's interesting paper, by expressing the pleasure I 

 feel in finding that views, which I have held in almost the same 

 form for forty years, have been independently arrived at by so 

 skilled a logician as Mr. Turner. My "Post-mortem Examination, 

 or What is the Condition of the Disembodied Human Spirit 1 " 

 (Williams and Norgate), was published in 1867, and was followed 

 in two years by " The Spirit Controversy," an expansion of the 

 former. 



In these I tried to show that memory, an essential factor of 

 thought, belonged entirely to the body, upon which the human 

 spirit was dependent for the reception of all impressions, internal 



