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PROF. REX KNIGHT, in his presidential address to Section J, remarks that more than sixty years have now passed since the "Encyclopedia Britannica" first published in 1886 Ward's famous article on "Psychology", which William James at once described as "marking the transition of British psychology from one epoch to another". Ward's article showed that psychology was no longer to be regarded as a branch of analytic or speculative philosophy, but as a positive science concerned with the systematic investigation of matters of fact. Since it appeared, striking changes have occurred in the scope, methods and practical usefulness of psychology in Great Britain.
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Present-Day Trends in British Psychology. Nature 162, 404 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162404a0
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