Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-29
IDA GILBERT MYERS.

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THE WAYS OF BEHAvIoRIsM. BY
John B. Watson, PHI. y. LII. D.. au-
thor Of .BehavioriSm," etc. New
York: Harper e. Bros
TIME hehayiorist waS born of re-
volt. ana the old subjective psy-
chologist turned his back
i sauarely upon this upstart. de-
nying II any worth save that at
immediate and complete annlhiat;on.
Buf The young rebel refused to be killed
OF. Sound of wind end limb. he kept
right on yelling anc kicking against the
utter tonfoolery. from any practical
point Of view. OF the old psychology
with its tenu0Is meanings, its abstract
foun6erines. its elusive bearings upon
ANYTHING whatever pertaining TO either
the nature or the behavior Of man. Ihe
tunault went on increasingly among tn@
savsnts Til even the common people,
hearing the din. wanted 10 know what
the runpus was about So IN Straign,-
forward fashion John 3. Watson Is tell
tnc us here. 1t is the fight between the
old and the new, between the old an-
sf~action and the new ohiectivity. At
tacking the old, the behaviorist SAID.
"BoShl" or words TO that effect, Then
with one big movement he swept the old
abstraction of into the waste basket.
Then he said. Listen! Isn't the most
important thing about a human being
what he does? How he behaves? from
that point of view he began to study
this human--not books ABOUT MN, out
The man or child himself The baby
became the laboratory The baby took
the place Of the old round OF words
consciousness. concept, PERCEPTION. an
consciousness. and So on. Beside the
baby this rebel campeo. II grew to os
= wear old ti7en :. then ;. And stun
tbs ,ehavior!st stayed by. And the
things he learned, Naturally. he was
ell the time an object Of scorn TO the
sci lars who had their notions Of psy-
chnlcey all sewed up and slowed away
In their pockets. The point right here
Is that what he was saying anybody
could understand. and better yet. it was
true 1t is helpful it is of building
stripe, it promises the individual tools
for making himself and measures for a
general understanding of the human
and how he got that way. on, TO be
sure. the hehaTiorist plays the very
dickens with tradition and fetch, out,
the first shock over. the effect Is fine.
''No inheritance Of genius, or its oppo-
site, from father to SOM" "Dln you
say that, Mr.. Behaviorist?" He did, and
then he went to work to prove what he
q
startling thing and then To show how
true ii is By and BIZ You begin 10 like
IT, because 1t is not only true but man.
aceable from the standpoint OF the
human. He proves that We haven't
lot of things which VIE supposed We
had-and hated for having, since they
left u. 50 HELPLESS. Read what he says
about enlotions-love, hate, anger. de-
sire and the rest They do not reside in
the heart. not In the heart alone. as We
SO Economically thought. The intestines
have part in making them, and SO
Go the liver and the lights and all the
other contraptions going under the
name of "insides." And these insides
can be educated in the interest Of the
loves and hates that We lug around
with US. A whole significant chapter Is
given TO this important thene-"The
Behavior of the Gut" il Is called.
Sounds irnpolite. doesn't it, Just
Saxon instead of Latin. He might have
said "viscera. but ne didn't, It wouldn't
have meant so much IL he had, not to
US Of the Saxon short-word build
Read. you mothers. what he has to say
about maternal affection. And refute It
IF YOU can Remember, his laboratory
Is the baby, your baby. 1t is not q set
Of words handed down for generations.
Well. suppose Won read the whole Of this
book and al the other hooks from this
sour of the new behavicrisrl. A most
inspiring adventure In the human is Of
fered here. Let's go.
GREAT FRENCH SHORT STORIES
Edited by Lewis Melville and Regi-
maid HaTgreaves. New York: Boni
d Ltverigilt
CINCE II has come TO light that the
~ short story Is not merely a novel.
cut short IN its career by some casual
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look Pretty much as the biologist
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book moves forward into the present.
This progression 6iscloses the fact that
the development Of the short story. as
such. has been a gradual movement.
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n1ent 10 the novel. rather than To the
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which these plainly competent editors
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responsibility.
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