Excerpt from Whence and Whither: An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Soul, Its Origin and Its Destiny
Some psychologists of the modern school have characterised their science as a " psychology without a soul." They mean thereby that the old dualistic conception of the soul as a metaphysical ego-being, with faculties and functions, has been dis carded; that there is no such thing as a soul-entity; and that, accordingly, our psychology must be reconstructed, pretty much after the manner in which we might reconstruct the play of "Hamlet" with the role of Hamlet omitted. The author of this little book is fully aware of the gravity of the charges that have been made against the old-fashioned soul-conception; in fact, he himself is one of the most energetic sup porters of the monistic philosophy, but he would insist that, while a deeper insight into the nature of things necessitates a revision of our science, the facts of mans soul-life remain the same as before, and the new psychology is not a psychology without a soul, but a psychology with a new interpretation of the soul.
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