THE MISBEHAVIORISTS THE MISBEHAVIORISTS PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND THE MODERN TEMPER BY HARVEY WICKHAM [Illustration] NEW YORK LINCOLN MAC VEAGH · THE DIAL PRESS LONGMANS, GREEN & COMPANY TORONTO 1928 COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY DIAL PRESS INCORPORATED MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. TO ALL ENQUIRING MINDS, AND TO THOSE DISTURBED BY THE APPARENT LOGIC IN MANY CURRENT THEORIES HOSTILE TO THEIR DEAREST CONVICTIONS, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED CONTENTS CHAPTER I--THE MODERN TEMPER 13 CHAPTER II--BEHAVIORISM FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A PSYCHOLOGIST 22 1. The Missing Mr. Mind 22 2. An Undecided Synapse 35 3. Eliza Does not Cross the Ice 43 4. Tinks! Tinks! Kwaks! Kwaks! 54 CHAPTER III--DR. MCDOUGALL’S X 67 1. At the Beck of Thirteen Masters 67 2. Psyche Wields the Broom 79 CHAPTER IV--A SLAVE TO DREAMS 88 1. The Confessions of Sigmund Freud 88 2. The Elaboration of a Fiction 104 3. Two Oft-Thwarted Passions 108 4. More Suppositions 117 5. Freud the Metaphysician 129 CHAPTER V--THE FAIRY HALLS OF SCIENCE 139 1. The Idols of the Tribe 139 2. Some Nebulous Matters 150 3. The Bed of Procrustes 159 4. The New Physics 164 5. Chance 174 CHAPTER VI--THE FAMILY TREE 186 1. Are Monkeys People? 186 2. Burbanking the Human Race 201 3. Salvation by Who’s Who 213 CHAPTER VII--THIS UNBELIEVING WORLD 225 1. Dorsey 225 2. The Brazen Bough 242 3. St. Paul as Scapegoat 258 4. The Church as Scapegoat 267 5. The Stories of Duran 280 CHAPTER VIII--THE ANCIENT TEMPER 292 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF TO FACE PAGE DR. JOHN WATSON 56 “Give me the baby”