moral stimulation.  I can take a skeleton to pieces scientifically, but not a living soul.  I am helpless before Mr. Swinburne, or any authentic poet, but quite at my ease before Macaulay or Professor Aytoun.”  Mr. Buchanan could presumably take the last two to pieces and analyse them as if they were skeletons; but before Swinburne, “the living soul,” he is helpless.  Now we want a scientific reason for all this; we want to analyse, not the skeleton, that has been done often enough, but “the living soul.”  We want to know the ingredients of character that constituted Mr. Buchanan’s preferences.  What composition gave him his special temper and character?  Why did his mind tend towards Robert Browning, and away from George Eliot?  Why in short did his mind work in the way it did?  The more original the mind, the more its investigation would repay us.  But it must be self-investigation; what we want are facts of mind, mental data and in order to get them, we must investigate the living mind All the usual explanations of Temperament, Nature, Heredity, Education are the same difficulties, expressed in different words.  Heredity is a circumstance, which has to be reckoned with, but we have to investigate, not circumstances, but results.  Here is a living complex mind, no matter how I inherit it, here it is; now then, how does it work, what can I do with it?  And then comes the further inevitable question—­What is it?  What is this thing, this me, which tends to feel and act in a certain direction—­to admire spontaneously, this, and to despise with as perfect ease, that.  What we need for scientific investigation into the me is “to utilise minds so as to form a living laboratory” Mind vivisection without torture, cruelty or the knife.  What we want to know definitely from science is:  How does this thing which I call my mind work?  Science regards mind as the sum of sensations, which are the necessary results of antecedent causes.  It endeavours to know how and in what way these sensations can be trained and perfected.  Nearly twenty years ago, a writer in the Psychological Journal “Mind"[1] Mr. J. Jacobs, attempted to form a Society for the purpose of experimental psychology.  Thinkers and scientific men have carried out this work, but the general public has not been greatly interested or interested for any length of time.  No such society exists among the English public.  The greater number of enthusiastic students is to be found in Italy and America.  But Germany has furnished great individual workers, such as Fechner, Helmholtz, and Wundt.  Collective investigation was necessary to separate individual peculiarities from general laws.  Science of course aims at changing the study of individual minds/into “a valid science of mind.”  Mr. J. Jacobs wished a Society to be organised for the purpose of measuring mind, measuring our senses, and for testing our mental powers as accurately as weight and height are tested now, and also for experimenting