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researchers have been too much restricted, and although it often secents to trifling, as the physicists also so, still seems to me exceedingly sound and positive.
I do not think that physiological psychology has as yet fairly got to work in the right way.
As for the other kind of psychology which observe children, and animals, and collect statistics about different classes of minds.
The work is meritorious undoubtedly, but it has not as it seems to me, learned as yet how to go to work.

The general situation is this.
Mathematics is in magnificent condition.
The special sciences of the material universe pursue the special work which is peculiarly theirs with methods that have been throughly studied with the most brilliant results and no fault can be found with them.
The special sciences of the human wing of science, psychology, linguistics