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Human psychology : an introduction to philosophy, being a brief treatise on intellect, feeling and will

"My purpose in preparing this book has been to furnish something which might be adapted to the use of college classes, and at the same time useful to thoughtful readers in general, who may desire to review the elements of Psychology and Metaphysics, or bring down their acquaintance with these subjects to a more recent period. I was led to see the need of such a work by actual experience in teaching. The existing text-books were unsatisfactory to me for various reasons. Some are too large for use as text-books, others so small as to give no adequate idea of the extent of the subject. Some are too abstruse and difficult in style and matter, others display no familiarity with the recent, especially the German, literature of the subject. Some are too one-sided, either as giving only the peculiar views of the writers, or as neglecting important parts of the subject. Some are ill-proportioned, some are ill-arranged, some are unsound in doctrine. In the preparation of the present work, a serious attempt has been made to keep in mind and avoid these defects. The book is small enough to be read through by a college class in one term, and yet, I believe, large enough to contain a fair introduction to the study of philosophy, and give the attentive student some idea of the literature of the subject. If this book shall be of service in making the study of Philosophy easier and more attractive, I shall feel amply repaid for all my labor"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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