The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
Two Great Psychologists

TWO treat fSycnOlOSlsts
 "The newspaper notices with regard to the life and work of the late Prof. Will ham James of Harvard remind some of us how much we have missed by not keeping in touch with the fascinating sci ence of psychology" said Charles Cliff ton Terrell. Ph. D., Leipzig, formerly pro- lessor of languages in the University of Mississippi but now general manager of the Pratt Export Coal company of Bir- mingham. You must court her constant iy, like any other charming woman, if you would understand her; and even then you won't understand her.-like any oth- CT woman. In recent years she has made marvellous strides. There is only one way to explain it. She has managed some how to steal the seven-league boats away from fairyland, and to make them fit her dainty feet.
 T do not profess to know anything about psychology. It is distinctly out of my line. I am ready to believe that James was at the time of his death the foremost psychologist of the English speaking world My only excuse for per petrating this talk Is the fact that l have been struck by a resemblance be- tween his career and the career of Will helm Wundt, whom the Germans con- sider the greatest psychologist of mod ern times. And not the Germans alone. The New International Encyclopaedia is a very recent work Q90D, edited by our own Daniel Colt Gilman, our dear and only Harry Thurston Peck. and Frank Moore Colby. It tells how Wundt insti- tuted a periodical the Philosophische Sudden (Philosopic Studies) for the pur pose of publishing the work of the psy chological@ laborstory at Leipzig, and goes on to say From the foundation of the Leipzig laboratory and of the Studien came the effective impulse which has led to. the institution of many, if not all, of the other laboratories for the systematic of experimental psychology in both Europe and America. Wundt is thus not only the leading German rep of what is ordinarily termed sense it's creator He alone treated it in all it's area; he alone had sufficient breadth of outlook, sufficient training, and sufficient sympathy to unite in one science the work of Herbart, Weber, Fechner. and Lotze-whoever they may be.
 While a student at the University of Leipzig some years ago I went in once to hear Wundt because he was one of the celebrities. He Impressed me as not at all ,prepossessing. and as absolutely lack ing fin magnetism. did not find his lec- ture interesting, even in the least degree. His pronunciation was provncial-anything but free from dialect, as-the Germans ex- press it-and his delivery was character ized by the sing-song of the Saxons. Doubtless William James surpassed him In charm of manner, in briliancy and in popularity. James style seems to appeal to layman as we'll as to the specialist. This is one reason why the study of psy- chology has become so popular in America in recent years.
 "When a student at the University of Berlin, in 1902, l went to hear another celebrity, the great philosopher Paulsen. There is constant pickering in Germany between specialists in the same field, and it is seldom that one professor praises another in his lectures. I was astonished to hear Paulsen laud Wundt to the skies. He spoke of him as the shining light of the gae Wundt was born in 1882, but as far as I know he is still alive.
 "German-like I was about to go to press without the verb. I had rambled off so far from what I originally meant an tirely. Wundt began his career as a specialist in medicine. In 1857 he qualified as an instructor in physiology at Heidel- berg. where he became assistant professor
 in 1864. James took no bachelors de- gree, but was graduated in 1870 as M. D. from Harvard, where he also began his career as a teacher of anatomy and phys iology. Each of these great men, who were so different in other respects, thus first approached psychology from the point of view of medcine-as specialist In physiology. Perhaps, however, all other modern psychologists have done the same thing. In that case l am making an exhibition of my ignorance.
 T know I shall be excused for talking on subject that know nothing about when I tell you that l am much relieved by having got 1t out of my system"
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