Excerpt from The Elements of Psychology
Though many works on Psychology have been published within the last few years, the feeling is still very general that even the best of them are not well adapted to the needs of teachers who are in quest of principles and doctrines which may serve as a basis for rational methods. It is to be recollected that neither the highest generalizations nor the mere empirical rules of a science can be turned to profitable account in the way of practical applications; the first are too vague to admit of ready interpretation and use; and the second are too narrow to be fruitful in adaptations to an art where versatility is so necessary. A book to serve the needs of the general teaching class should have, it would seem, the following qualities: -
1. It should contain only the essentials of psychology; it should not be a cyclop?dia of psychological science.
2. It should not be a work of erudition or learned research, designed for the specialist and the proficient; but a book for the dissemination of scientific truth among persons who need it first of all for the applications they can make of it.
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