Elements of Physiological Psychology

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Excerpt from Elements of Physiological Psychology: A Treatise of the Activities and Nature of the Mind From the Physical and Experimental Point of View The mtiafactory definition of any science is Often one of the latest and most difiicult achievements of that science. When such defini tion is placed at the beginning of an investigation, it must Often reallv include results reached onlv by going carefully and repeatedly over the entire ground of the science. In all such cases the learner of the. Science is quite unable fullv to comprehend the definition, or to understand the positions upon various disputed questions which it may really involve. In general, then, it is better that the earliest so-called definition should be simply a description of that class of phenomena which it is proposed, as far as possible, to isolate for purposes of inquirv. This remark applies with peculiar force to psychology, both on account of such objections as those mentioned above, and also on account of certain difficulties inherent in the subject itself. Accordingly, it w ill serve. Our purpose best to de fine this science simply by ascribing to it a certain more or lea(mercenaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.