HUGO MUNSTERBERG
as to deny that the chemical expert can find out whether
there is arsenic in the stomach.’* But as yet it was the
psychologist’s task merely to test the possibilities of his
science, not to make it serve any practical end. For this
reason Münsterberg did not grant any information regard¬
ing his tests to newspaper reporters, and he had the satis¬
faction of knowing that the outcome of his experiments
could not reach the jury during the trial. It was his
intention to give the records of his experiments to scien¬
tific journals and scholarly archives and, as interest in
the possibilities of applied pyschology had taken hold
of the public, to write an easy presentation of his tests and
their results for a popular magazine, to appear—after
the trial.
No difficulty was put into the way of the psychologist
in carrying out his experiments. At the end of June,
1907, Münsterberg defied the heat and traveled straight
from Boston to Boise, Idaho, four days and four nights,
with a trunk full of psychological apparatus, and spent
there four days crowded with new impressions. Six ses¬
sions Münsterberg attended at the courtroom, where the
twelve jurymen sat rocking, each in his own rhythm, in
twelve rocking chairs. On the day of Münsterberg’s ar¬
rival, he had immediate opportunity to see Orchard on
the witness stand, cross-examined by the defense. The
scholar felt a strong aversion for the criminal with his
brutal, vulgar jaw, his small sparkling eyes and deformed
ears; Münsterberg’s sympathies instinctively went out to
Haywood, with the head of a brilliant thinker; and as
Münsterberg said himself after his return: “—but for a
real man, for a man who has ideals and is ready to fight
for them against this commonplace social body, a man
of the type of those who ultimately build up the world
and master fate—for a real man give me Haywood.”
Nevertheless, the psychologist’s self-imposed duty de-
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