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Dr. Mapother opens his presidential address by a reference to Darwin as the originator of scientific thought in biology and urges that in a centenary spirit those principles which he formulated should be applied to framing a science of conduct and consciousness of man, based upon nominalism and not upon animism. The former he equates with the 'tough mindedness' of William James and the extraversion of Jung, and considers this approach scientific. The latter he equates with 'tender mindedness' and with introversion and considers idealistic.
Psycho-analysis is attacked throughout the paper as unscientific: 'science aims at the power of prevision based upon quantitative knowledge'. It is based upon psycho-physical parallelism, which form of dualism has now been almost universally abandoned.
Dr. Mapother allows that the contribution of the psycho-analytic school does not lack records of observational data, but controverts this by insisting that the observations must be publicly made, and that they are invalidated by the intrusions of the analyst's preconceptions. He regards Freud as a poet who 'sees not deep but wide' and whose 'study is that of emotion recollected in tranquillity'.