The claims of psychology to a place in the circle of the sciences / sessional address of the President, Mr. Serjeant Cox.

  • Cox, Edward W. (Edward William), 1809-1879.
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[1878]
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    THE CLAIMS OF PSYCHOLOGY TO A PLACE IN THE CIKCLE OF THE SCIENCES. Sessional Address of the President, Me,. Seejeant Cox, on the opening of the Fifth Session of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, Nov. 7, 1878. Ladies and Gentlemen, I propose to devote this Fifth Sessional Address to a consideration of the claims of Psychology to a place in the Circle of the Sciences. That it has not yet received such a recognition is sufiB.ciently obvious. The conspicuous representative of the Science of the time is the British Association. This Society, by its all-embracing title and by the formal admission into its programme of more than one department that has not the slightest connection with physical science, practically asserts that no subject designed for the investigation, however remotely, of Nature and her laws will be excluded from its platform. Wherefore, then, is Psychology rejected ? The answer of the Association is, in substance, this: “Our business is with the tangible material Universe. Psychology deals B [239]