Human Psychology
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEFINITIONS. Psychology is the science of the mind. Science is accurate knowledge, systematically arranged. The mind is that which knows, feels, and wills. The reality and nature of this subject of these peculiar phenomena is reserved for discussion after we have studied the phenomena. The term " Psychology " is the best to designate this science, for the following reasons:? 1. It has long been in use in other languages. In Latin psychologia can be traced as far back as 1594. In German and French psychologic is said to have been in use over two centuries. 2. It covers the exact field intended, including all the phenomena of mind, but excluding the combinations of abstract thought. It adpiits a comparison of the human mind with the mind of the lower animals, if any light can be so obtained. Other terms incl
...ude too much or contain too little. " Mental Science," may include metaphysics and logic. "Science of Mind," includes only the intellect, and "science" is now very generally understood to mean physical and natural science only. " Mental Philosophy " properly means rational psychology, including the intellect alone, and has, moreover, the effect of placing this science among a large class of subjects to which the term philosophy is, in English, applied, such as Natural Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Government, of Education, even of Cookery. 3. It corresponds with many other names of sciences inEnglish; Geology, Theology, Physiology. Philology, etc., and like them, forms an adjective in cal and an adverb in cally. Human psychology is the science of the mind of man. The description of the manifestations of mind in the lower animals would enlarge the subject too much, and, though great expectations were at one time indulged of the enlarged a...
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