“... the soul
Which grows within a child makes the child grow.”
The physiologists and psychologists, as is not unusual, tardily follow
in the wake of the poets. At the International Congress of Experimental
Psychology, London, 1892, “Professor Delbœuf said that at all times the
mind of man had been capable of influencing the body, but it was only in
recent times that this action had been scientifically put in
evidence.”—(_Times_, August 3rd, 1892.)
And Dr. Albert Moll, of Berlin, had written the year previously,
that—“When the practical importance of mental influences becomes more
generally recognised, physicians will be obliged to acknowledge that
psychology is as important as physiology. Psychology and psychical
therapeutics will be the basis of a rational treatment of neuroses. The
other methods must group themselves around this; it will be the centre,
and no longer a sort of Cinderella of science, which now admits only the
influence of the body on the mind, and not that of the mind on the
body.”—(“Hypnotism,” p. 328.) See also Note XXVIII., 5.