Sessional address of the President (Mr. Serjeant Cox), November 4th, 1875.

  • Edward William Cox
Date:
1875
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Credit: Sessional address of the President (Mr. Serjeant Cox), November 4th, 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. of tfktvt Sessional Address of the President (Mr. Serjeant Cox), November Mh, 1875. At the commencement of the Second Session of this Society, the Council have desired to observe the practice of many scientific associations in presenting to the members through the President a summary of the progress made during the Session past and the prospects and promises of the Session beginning. It is with peculiar pleasure that I do their bidding now, because I have little to report that will not be received with great satisfaction, by the members of our Society, as indeed by all who take an interest in the great and important Science for the advance- ment of which we are associated. The mere fact that this Society is alive and likely to live is a matter for heart}r congratulation with Psychologists everywhere, for it was formed and is flourishing in despite of many confident prophecies of failure to find supporters, of impracticability in the subjects to be handled, and impossibility to obtain a hearing either from the scientific world or from the public outside, that were lavished upon the first publication of a design for the formation of a Society for the promotion of Psychology. These evil prophesyiugs would have sufficed to deter from exertion almost any but tho earnest men who had united their energies in the full con- [87]