The psychology of Hamlet : read at the meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, May 1, 1879 / by Mr. Serjeant Cox.

  • Cox, Edward W. (Edward William), 1809-1879.
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[1878]
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Credit: The psychology of Hamlet : read at the meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, May 1, 1879 / by Mr. Serjeant Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sgtljologital ^0cicti) si (foat THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HAMLET. Bead at the Meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, May 1,1879, by Mr. Serjeant Cox. Psychology may best be learned and taugbt by example. There is nothing more instructive to master and pupil alike than analysis of character and in its development by action and speech to trace the mental structure that so manifests itself. It is not too much to assert that moi’e knowledge of the forces by which the Mechanism of Man is moved and directed, and of the methods of their action, will be obtained from one such examination of the conduct and motives of an individual human being, than could be gleaned from a hundred lectures by metaphysicians dealing only with abstractions, conjectures, and a priori argument. But better even than the study of the Psychology of a Man living or who has lived, is the study of some one of the b [263]