Excerpt from Thought and Things, Vol. 1: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought or Genetic Logic

The object and topic of the present work are sufficiently explained in the Introduction. The phrase Genetic Logic is there commented upon. I should prefer to use that phrase for the principal title; but remembering the varying meanings of the word Logic, I hesitate to do so, and adopt, at the publishers' suggestion, a title that is less severe, although, if taken literally, still sufficiently descriptive. It is "Thought" and its objects, "Things," that the work treats of; so "Thought and Things" is really my topic.

The work is in line with certain endeavours characteristic of the time. The inroad of evolution and development theories, under the general notion of genesis, upon various "preserves" of the older disciplines, is resulting in a certain obliteration of boundaries and readjustment of methods. What has been called the "longitudinal treatment" of the cargo of science is forbidding its storage in the water-tight and exclusive compartments of the good old ship of Philosophy. For a time this will seem to lead to some confusion. But the result will undoubtedly broaden and enrich both our science and our philosophy.

In this movement the problems of knowledge as such have been slow to feel the need of a new balance and equilibrium. In psychology the emotional life was involved in evolution theory by Darwin himself.

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