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i88 The Century of the Child
Special laboratories for experimental psy-
chology 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 zeal-
ously 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 sys-
tem, will be able to get along without ori-
ginally creative men, because the receptive
activities of modern man will absorb the co-
operative powers of the brain to the disadvant-
age of the productive powers. And even if
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