Excerpt from The Feelings of Man: Their Nature, Function and Interpretation
The New Psychology is distinguished from the Old especially by the greater emphasis it is inclined to lay upon physiological processes. The past twenty or thirty years have seen greater progress in the development of psychology than has been made before since 1691, when Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding was published. This progress has been accomplished largely by the study of physiological changes as they are associated with psychological processes. But the physiology is still physiology, and the psychology is still psychology, and no thorough amalgamation of the two series of processes has yet been successfully accomplished.
In the present book an attempt is made to bring about a closer union of the tw*o series of phenomena than is ordinarily undertaken. The doctrine of parallelism, or correspondence, is invoked to furnish a tentative justification for an interpretation of mental processes in physiological terms.
It must be recognized that the doctrine of parallelism asserts no finality, but represents rather an armistice between two hostile philosophical camps. Psychology can well afford to assume this position which the doctrine of parallelism represents, for it professedly deals with phenomena, and not with ultimate finalities.
The plan of the book demands the postulation of a physiological hypothesis, which is incapable of direct verification, but which is demanded to explain the relation of directly observed phenomena to each other.
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