Excerpt from Handbook Psychology
This handbook is designed primarily to introduce students to the science of psychology; and to this design every other purpose, which the book may serve, has been made subordinate. Psychology embraces a considerable body of systematised facts which are beyond dispute; but there are also some problems, still unsettled, which affect even the fundamental principles of the science. No fair exposition of the science is possible without indicating the expositors standpoint in reference to these problems; but it is not advisable to perplex the beginner with a prefatory discussion of controverted questions; and to the more advanced student, who may honour the book with a perusal, its general standpoint ought to be evident without preliminary explanations.
With regard to the appearance of the book at the present time, it may be but fair to state that it was nearly completed before I was aware that Mr. Sully and Mr. Greenleaf Thompson were engaged on the contributions which they have recently made to the literature of psychology, and that my book had passed out of my hands before either of those works was published.
It is also but fair to add that I am indebted mainly to the laborious care of my wife for whatever accuracy has been attained in seeing the book through the press.
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