A manual of psychology.

  • Stout, George Frederick, 1860-1944.
Date:
1913
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH EDITION. The progress of Psychology ‘in recent years has been so much a matter of the intrusion of novel ‘ points of view,’ and so little a matter of consistent growth in a single direction that particular interest must attach to the developments in the thought of so distinguished a representative of the central tradition in British Psychology as Professor Stout. Of these developments it has fallen to my lot to be in part the scribe. Everyone will regret that this revision has not come from the pen of Professor Stout alone; and throughout my part in its preparation I have tried to bear this fact in mind, and in consequence have aimed, above all, at preserving consistency in the general scheme of exposition. In drawing upon the work of other authors I have restricted myself to matters of generally accepted fact or hypotheses which are in fundamental agreement with the psychological doctrines of Professor Stout. But the most important changes and additions relate to amplifications or restatements in respect of these doctrines themselves. The following are the most important of the changes introduced:— (1) Professor Stout’s general theory of the relation of thought to sentience, with its application to the problems of perception—perhaps one of the most valuable and distinctive features of the previous editions of the Manual—has been amplified and very largely restated. This has involved verbal changes throughout the whole work, and a radical revision of the key passages in Book III., Part II. This revision was complete before the appearance of Mr. Joseph’s article in Mind,^ but I am not without hope that the newer statement will ease some at least of the difficulties he feels, difficulties which I confess I at one time felt myself no less acutely than he. * Jan. 1929.