Fourth sessional address / by the President Mr. Serjeant Cox.

  • Cox, Edward W. (Edward William), 1809-1879.
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[1877]
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    jjsiubologial gritaht I N. -****” J K ^ Fourth Sessional Address by the President Mr. Serjeant Cox, Nov. 1, 1877. The Fourth Session of the Psycho logical Society op Great Britain commences amid circumstances that cannot fail to give a new interest and importance to the Society, to attract to its proceedings the attention of a larger public, and to enlist the sympathies of many by whom its objects have been hitherto unknown or misunderstood. The questions “ Soul 33 or “ No Soul ? 33 “ Is Psychology a real or sham science V3 “ Are we associated for the investi- gation of a myth or of a very real existence ?33 have been of late actively agitated by both speech and pen. Thus has this great subject been brought under the notice of the educated public to an extent and in a manner never attempted before. In the Nineteenth Gentury the question of Soul or no Soul has been distinctly put forward for formal discussion and comment. Thinkers of all shades of opinion were invited to express their views. The pages of the periodical were fairly opened to all sides. Divines, statesmen, lawyers, scientists, economists, philo- sophers, accepted the invitation and took part in this Modern Symposium. For several months the question has thus been ably argued from the Theological, the Positivist, “ [219] •ocicti) (rf (treat f