THE SCIENCE OF BREATH
When Dr. J, McKeen ' Cattell became ptofcssor Of psychology at the Uttivetsity of Benasylvania, tJ.S.A., in i§ss> he was the first occupant of the fire4 eliair of psychology in any University. The word psychology, of Gteek OrigiflJ moant literhTly ' ' science of thfe bfeath," and was given that meaning beca'uSfe the Greelss associated the breath with life itself. When they ObservCd tho breath leaving the body of a dying person they felt that With it Went the Soul. So the science of breath meant the science of the soul. Later, when the soul came to have a different and more speeifically religious ®
meaning, psychology wae called the science of thfe mind, says a science service, Washing'ton, D.O. Still later it became knoyrn as the science of conscioiisness. Much mere recently it has been proposed that it should. be Called thfe science Of behaviour.' TlliS develcpment of • the tferm psychology suggeste'd the followiflg witt'icism, q'uoted by Dr. ^arnufel W. Dernberger, of the University of PennSylvania, itt his new b.ook on "Elementai'y General PsyCholfegy.":— ' ' PsycholOglStS . fhifc lost their breath, thea they lost thfeir soul, thfen thfeir mind, a. d -ibw, With the deVfelopihg interest in reactions, they are rapidly losing consoiousness." I 4
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 17
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