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WITH the death on September 1, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, of Prof. W. Wundt a remarkable and striking personality passes away from the scientific world. If, as a philosophic thinker, he did not possess either the speculative genius or the insight of a Herbart or a Lotze, he was yet a mind of extraordinary versatility, whose comprehensive acquaintance with vast fields of knowledge has rarely, if ever, been rivalled. His amazing activity as a writer has been for long a source of wonder to his contemporaries; year after year books, pamphlets, and articles have issued from his pen in steady succession, and there was no department of philosophy which he thus left untouched. Naturally, this tremendous literary output is riot all of equal worth, but almost everything he wrote exhibits a surprising mastery of detail and power of turning it to account in reaching theoretical conclusions. As a teacher, too, his influence has been;extremely wide and far-reaching; students from all parts of the world met in his class-room, and worked in the Institute of Experimental Psychology at Leipzig, the foundation of which was due to him.
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HICKS, G. Prof. Wilhelm Wundt. Nature 106, 83–85 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106083a0
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