Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... The Insuf-ficiency of Rational Psychology. versal, but is a law of the universe itself, as we know it in time. Since the days of Heraclitus no observation of man has been commoner than that all things change. Modern astronomy, geology, and biology have shown the unity of these changes in one vast system of cosmic development. The changes occur within the whole system of reality beyond which there is nothing to cause change. Manifestly, then, the whole system, as a unity including change, is self-active. The development of the universe in time is conditioned by the principle of self-activity. It is not surprising, then, but natural, that man, the microcosm, reflecting the macrocosm, should find his own self-development only in his own self-activity. "My Father worketh hitherto and I work." From the beginning until now it has been the good service of rational psychology to insist upon selfactivity as the central principle in consciousness. This truth is still true; the mind does react by means of its own nature upon the sensuous material presented to it, and upon its own conscious states. But this rationalistic view of the mind is inadequate, not so much because of what it does say as because of what it does not say. This point of view regards the mind as mature, as independent of its material environment, and as individual. It omits to consider the mind as growing through its immaturity into maturity, as conditioned in its manifestations by states of the brain and body, and as reaching its true nature through contact with fellow minds. The rationalistic psychology is not supplanted, but it is to-day supplemented by the genetic, the experimental, and the social the three factors of imitation, interest, and effort. Three This trinity of...
