First edition, a nice association. The ‘new’ Germany psychology was scientific and empirical, relying solely on observation of physical phenomena. Ribot’s work was published in the same year as the establishment of Wilhelm Wundt’s psychological laboratory in Leipzig; he was delighted with the work. Charles Renouvier was a philosopher who aimed to establish a complete idealistic system based on Kantian “phenomenalism”, with its dislike of the unknowable. Ribot was an admirer, if not an imitator, and the importance of phenomenology to his psychological work might well have suggested this association.