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Credit: Thinking, feeling, doing / by E.W. Scripture. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![of material ; the subject is the same for both, namely, the Difference be- facts of mind. The difference lies in the carefulness andttenew? with which the information in regard to these phenomena is obtained. Instead of careless observation and guess- work the utmost care and self-sacrificing labor are ex- pended in the laboratory in order to obtain single facts. This method of careful, scientific work is unintelligible Thenewpsy- to the men of the old school. The method of experi- ci^red todbe a ment '' taxes patience to the utmost'' and '' could hardly bore- have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored. Just as the schoolmen of long ago were busy in specula- ting on such questions as, How many angels could dance on the point of a needle ?'' so these men write volumes about the Me, the Unity of Consciousness, the Consciousness of Identity, etc. It never occurs to them that the world might ask, Well, what of it? Sup- pose you have proved that 19^ angels can dance on the aforesaid needle. Well, what of it ? Suppose you have settled to your satisfaction that consciousness is a unity, is double, or is anything else you please. Well, what of it? When you have written your 500 or 1,000 pages on these subjects, is the world any better off? have you contributed one single fact to the advance of science and humanity ? While you were up in the clouds specula- ting, we were hungering, dying for the lack of informa- tion on the most vital questions. Have you no thought, no suggestion as to how we may grow better ourselves and educate our children to a better life ? Who are the men to whom we owe the regeneration ? Psvcho]offv at Of course, the psychological awakening is only a part of last free- the great movement by which many of the sciences have successively emerged from the scholasticism of the Middle Ages. Mathematics, physics, chemistry, biol-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21077216_0291.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
