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THIS book is a striking addition to the ‘worth-while’ books on the functions of the nervous system. It is, however, a difficult book to read, as the author quite candidly admits in his preface. The dominant theme of patterns is purely an abstraction and is an attempt to bring the material and the immaterial more into harmony with one another than is commonly done. Dr. MacCurdy confesses to being averse to materialistic hypotheses and takes up a position which is whole-heartedly immaterialistic. His theory is that all the processes of the mind, and indeed of the nervous system, are integrated, correlated, and controlled by what he calls ‘patterns.’
Common Principles in Psychology and Physiology.
By Dr. John T. MacCurdy. (The Cambridge Psychological Library.) Pp. xvii + 284. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1928.) 15s. net.
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Psychology. Nature 122, 540 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122540a0
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