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Excerpt from Concrete Psychology: An Inductive Investigation of Intellect, Sensibility and Will; For Normal Schools, High Schools, Reading Circles, and Colleges Origin or the Book. - The present volume is not the product of a rage for book-making. Text books on almost any subject are so numerous that he who imagines he can write a hook filled with now material or with discoveries that should eclipse other authors, will find himself sadly deluded. I have written this treatise under the pressure of honest conviction - I have written it because I believe it to be my duty. Text books on psychology are quits numerous; but most of them are abstract and heavy, adapted rather to Colleges than to Normal Schools and practical life. A treatise on psychology for pedagogical and practical purposes should be rather a systematic exposition than a cyclopedic presentation of ancient and modern doctrines. A Normal School psychology should aim at culture and scholarship directly applicable to interpretations of pedagogical and practical situations. Normal School text books should not be merely a reference book, a compilation of diverse doctrines; but a systematic development adapted to the grasp of ordinary Senior class work. Surely we need a book on psychology adapted at least in a measure to sound principles of education. It is a favorite doctrine of pedagogy that a school recitation has three distinct missions to perform. These missions are test, drill and instruction. If the fundamental aims of education are culture and scholarship, a school recitation must have the three enumerated missions. A recitation in psychology requires preparation with a text book that is based upon the three missions of a recitation. The ordinary treatise on psychology is not adapted to these requirements. The present volume is adapted to a Normal School recitation in at least eight or ten ways. 1. The Psychological Framework is a continuous analysis designed to aid the student in grasping the predominant text items. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.