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"Less than a year ago, a number of teachers at an institute which the author was attending, requested him to give them Correspondence Lessons in Psychology. He consented without adequately considering the amount of labor it would involve. For a little reflection enabled him to see that the only author he could recommend to them--Sully--was much too difficult for students of their attainments. He soon saw that the labor of explaining so difficult a book would be much greater than that of writing lessons directly for them week by week. He accordingly decided to do this, and this little book is the result. As appears from its title, it does not undertake to discuss, even in a superficial way, all the phases of mental activity. It deals only with those facts and laws of mind, which, in the judgment of the author, it is most useful for teachers to be familiar with. The style of the book is colored by the fact that it was originally written for a class of teachers. The book lays no special claim to originality. The object of the author throughout has been to call the attention of his readers to important mental facts in such a way as to set them to observing their own minds and the minds of their pupils, in order to see whether or not he was right. Profoundly convinced as he is, of the importance of a knowledge of Psychology to the teacher, he is quite as strongly convinced that the only really fruitful knowledge of Psychology which the teacher will ever gain he will derive from a study of his own mind and the minds of the people with whom he comes in contact, and that books about Psychology are useful chiefly as they give suggestions in this direction. Accordingly, the aim of the author throughout has been to act the part of a guide in a strange city--tell his readers where to look to find valuable truths"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
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Though this book is called an "Introduction," no special pains have been taken to simplify or popularize its treatment. For those accustomed to think in the lines it follows, its views will, I hope, always be found clearly and candidly expressed. It is not to be expected that these views will all find acceptance with those most competent to judge. For beginners in philosophy some expressions will doubtless seem obscure, or hard to be understood. But, then, reflection is the indispensable method of philosophy; and he who does not learn to reflect over the meanings which the words employed in philosophical writings bear, cannot hope to make progress in philosophical study. For if, when entering upon this study, the plain and thoughtful man needs no special equipment besides his own powers of reflection, the keenest and most showily educated mind cannot dispense with reflection. Finally, the expert readers--if such the book should find--will not be long in discovering that the so-called "Introduction" is by no means a perfectly colorless affair. Doubtless a system of philosophy (or at least the sketch and protocol of such a system) lies concealed in these pages. If the subject were urged to the point of a confession, it would appear that the author has views of his own to which he wishes to introduce his readers. These views are to a certain large extent positive as well as critical. The attempt has been made, however, to prevent their expression in a form unreasonably and offensively dogmatic. Whether they are sound and defensible, each reader must, on due consideration, judge for himself. But a "system of philosophy" has only been suggested and sketched. The expansion and more detailed discussion of its separate departments by the same hand must abide their time.
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