Scripture, E: Thinking, Feeling, Doing (Classic Reprint) -

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Excerpt from Thinking, Feeling, Doing

A fellow psychologist said to me one day, Are you not afraid that all this accurate and fine work in the laboratory will scare away the public? This book is the answer. You, my dear reader, and I, have no time, inclination, or means to spend years in studying the details Of the physical laboratory or the Observatory, yet we both enjoy an account of the latest advances of electricity by a specialist in physics or a series Of new photographs Of the moon by an astronomer. Life is so short that a man can learn only one thing well, whether it be the best method of dyeing cambric or the most efficient con struction Of locomotives. The botanist is quite at home with the plants but is ordinarily as ignorant Of psychology as a stock-broker - if not more so. The mathematician learns some section Of mathematics, but would be just as awkward at a chemical analysis as any other outsider. We all belong to the great public except in regard to the particular handi work, trade, Or science that each knows something about. And yet we are all interested in hearing about a new science. There is nothing too good for the public - for you and for me the finer the work, the more novel the inven tion, or the more important the discovery, the greater the duty Of telling it to the public in language that can be understood.

The greatest Of psychologists, Wundt, has written a series Of lectures on psychology (lately translated into English), but the style and the matter are fully intelligible only to those who are already somewhat familiar with the science. NO one else has produced a book explaining the methods and results of the new psychology. This is my reason for writing one.

This is the first book on the new, or experimental, psychology written in the English language. That it has been written expressly for the people will, I hope, be taken as evidence of the attitude Of the science in its desire to serve humanity.

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