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The Education of the Child by Ellen Karolina Sofia Key
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France, there was founded in 1894, the Annee Psychologique,
edited by Binet and Beaunis, and also the Bibliotheque de
Pedagogie et de Psychologie, edited by Binet. In England there
are the journals, Mind and Brain.

Special laboratories for experimental psychology with
psychological apparatus and methods of research are found in
many places. In Germany the first to be founded was that of
Wundt in the year 1878 at Leipzig. France has a laboratory for
experimental psychology at Paris, in the Sorbonne, whose
director is Binet; Italy, one in Rome. In America experimental
psychology is zealously pursued. As early as 1894, there were
in that country twenty-seven laboratories for experimental
psychology and four journals. There should also be mentioned
the societies for child psychology. Recently one has been
founded in Germany, others before this time have been at work
in England and America.

A whole series of investigations carried out in Kraepelin's
laboratory in Heidelberg are of the greatest value for
determining what the brain can do in the way of work and
impressions.

An English specialist has maintained that the future, thanks to
the modern school system, will be able to get along without
originally creative men, because the receptive activities of
modern man will absorb the cooperative powers of the brain to
the disadvantage of the productive powers. And even if this
were not a universally valid statement but only expressed a
physiological certainty, people will some day perhaps cease
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