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Out of this 'curiosity to know' science is born. Men look out upon the world, and see that it is full of objects which call for investigation. Inanimate nature is made to reveal her secrets; laws are discovered in the fall of the stone, the ebb and flow of water, the spread of colours in the rainbow: physics, the 'mother of the sciences,' has arisen. The various living organisms have each their spe cial habits and their special structure, the observation of which is the starting-point Of zoology; and so on.

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Excerpt from An Outline of Psychology

My aim in writing this book has been to present in brief outline and simple form the methods and most important results of experimental psychology. The volume contains the substance of lectures delivered to second and third year classes in the Cornell University, and is designed primarily as a text-book for those who attend my lecture courses. I hope, however, that its sphere of usefulness may extend beyond these limits.

The plan of work is analytic. It sets out from the consideration of the simplest factors in adult mental experience, and endeavours gradually to build up the actual mind from the laws of these simple factors and their groupings. After a general introduction comes a series of four chapters, which deal with the elementary conscious functions. A second series discusses those complex mental processes which are easiest of analysis and lend themselves best to individual treatment. A third series deals in part with still more complicated processes, while in part it pushes the analysis of previous chapters still further. A concluding section surveys the results of the whole enquiry, and indicates the point at which psychology gives place to metaphysics.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.