Elements of psychology / by George Croom Robertson ; edited from notes of lectures delivered at the college, 1870-1892, by C.A. Foley Rhys Davids.

  • Robertson, George Croom, 1842-1892.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Elements of psychology / by George Croom Robertson ; edited from notes of lectures delivered at the college, 1870-1892, by C.A. Foley Rhys Davids. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fessor Clark Murray’s Handbook, or Professor HofTding’s Outlines. In prescribing the last, as soon as Miss Lowndes’s translation appeared, he remarked that, in addition to more solid virtues, its presentation was thoroughly interesting, and that its un-British methods and standpoints afforded an instructive comparison. Advanced students were repeatedly recommended to master Dr. Ward’s article, ‘ Psychology.’ Passages in ]\Ir. Spencer’s treatise and in Taine’s De rIntelligence were always decreed. But as the pupil of Professor Bain, and as representing in essential points that school of which he is the most direct and eminent outcome, the lecturer made the manual of Menial Science at once the most constant and most closely criticised subject of his hearers’ study. In the course of years his treatment diverged more and more from that followed in the manual; but he not only continued to recommend it as on the whole best ‘covering the ground,’ but found in the criticism of it the best way of throwing his own position into relief as well as of sharpening the critical insight of his class. Finally, for kind assistance in reading the proofs and for valuable advice on many points of style and matter, my very grateful acknowledgement is here rendered to Mr. Charles Robertson and to Mr. Thomas Whittaker, Editor of the Philosophical Remams of George Groom Robertson. Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids. February, 1896.