The elements of intellectual science : a manual for schools and colleges

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1871. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Front gutter weakened. Library stamps and markings. xiv, 565, [6] pages. "Textbook presenting an overview of the major areas of the broad field psychology and psychological science. The text first material presented is called an "Introduction: Psychology and the Soul". Next comes a preliminary chapter examining the "Human Intellect: Its Function, Development, and Faculties". The book itself is divided into four major "Parts" containing material grouped under the following titles: "Part First: Presentation and Presentative Knowledge"; "Part Second: Representation and Representative Knowledge"; "Part Third: Thought and Thought Knowledge"; "Part Fourth: Intuition--The categories--First Principles". The preface notes that in accordance with the wishes of many instructors and friends of education, the author has prepared an abridged edition of his work entitled, The Human Intellect, which was first published in 1868. In doing this, he has retained all the leading positions of the original work, with many of the illustrations, occasionally condensing the language, and not infrequently changing the order and method of the argument. Many important topics, less adapted to an elementary work, have been omitted altogether. The controversial and critical observations, have to a large extent been dropped, or greatly abridged. The historical matter has been in part retained, so far as seemed appropriate to a strictly elementary manual. In order, however, to meet the wants of schools, as well as of colleges, some of the matter which is less adapted to beginners, has been printed in smaller type." - PsycINFO 2008.