Excerpt from The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul
The work now offered t o the public was prepared primarily and directly as a text-book for colleges and higher schools. It was also designed secondarily, though not less really, as a manual for more advanced students of psychology and speculative philosophy. It was hoped, also, that it might find a place in the libraries of some of the many readers and thinkers who wish to form clear and well-grounded opinions in respect to the nature and limits of human knowledge, and to read with intelligence and satisfaction the history of philosophy.
The designs of the author in preparing the volume may serve in part to explain, the selection and arrangement of the matter of which it consists, and to give greater force to a few suggestions in respect to its use as a text-book.
1. The more important definitions, propositions, and arguments are printed in the largest typo, in distinct paragraphs, and the paragraphs arc grouped, according to the principal topics, in separately numbered sections. The matter in this type is somewhat technically phrased and formally propounded, in order that it may be learned more readily for the examinations of the class-room. At the same time the aspect of too great technical formality has been studiously avoided by a free expansion, in somewhat varied phraseology, of the leading doctrines and definitions of the work. While the author has desired to avail himself fully of all the advantages which accrue from formal definitions and technical terms, he has not hesitated to repeat and illustrate his opinions in language somewhat popular in its character, and with a less rigid adherence to scholastic or precise terminology.
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