Excerpt from Outlines of Psychology, With Special References to the Theory of Education: A Text-Book for Colleges<br><br>While thus following the traditional lead in claim ing for psychology a place apart from the physical sciences, as the fundamental moral science, I follow the modern tendency to supplement the properly psychological study of mind by the physiological study of its nervous conditions and concomitants. Such investigation, though it cannot be a substitute for the direct observation of mental phenomena, seems to me to be a valuable addition to the science of mind, more particularly in its simpler departments (theory of sensation, fire).<br><br>I hold with Lewes that since in psychology we are specially concerned with that type of mental develop ment which presents itself in members of civilised communities, we must give prominence to the educa tive influence of that elaborate social system, involving the structure of language, traditional forms of thought, &amp;c., with which each individual comes from the first into intimate contact.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.