Joseph Haven
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 590
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Excerpt from Mental Philosophy, Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will Every year of subsequent experience as a teacher has but confirmed this impression, and made the want of a book better adapted to the purposes of instruction in our American Colleges more deeply felt. The works on mental science, which have recently appeared in this country, while they are certainly a valuable contribution to the de partment of philosophy, seem to meet this deficiency in [mi-t, but only in part. They traverse usually but a portion of the ground which Psychology legitimately occupies, con fining their attention, for the most part, to the Intellectual Faculties, to the exclusion of the Sensibilities and the Will. Feeling deeply the want which has been spoken of, it seemed to me, early in my course, that something might be done toward remedying the deficiency, by preparing with care, and delivering to the classes, lectures upon the topics presented in the books, as they passed along. This course was adopted - a method devolving much labor upon the instructor, but rewarding him by the increased interest and more rapid progress of the pupils. Little by little the present work thus grew up, as the result of my studies, in connection with my classes, and of my experience in the daily routine of the recitation and lecture room. Gradu ally the lectures, thus prepared, came to take. The place more and more of a text-bookfuntil there seemed to be no longer any reason why they should not be put into the hands of the student as such. 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.