Outlines of physiological psychology : A text-book of mental science for academies and colleges / by George Trumbull Ladd.

  • George Trumbull Ladd
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1891 [©1890]
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Credit: Outlines of physiological psychology : A text-book of mental science for academies and colleges / by George Trumbull Ladd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    There are some books that should never have been conceived, much less born ; and there are some few books the world could not spare. Of the scientific world at least, the latter may be said of Prof. Ladd's Physio- logical Psychology. After the accomplishment of such a task, any man might shuffle off this mortal coil with the feeling that he had well served his day and generation.—T. Wesley Mills, Prof, of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal. Ich habe mit vielem Interesse mehrere Theile aus diesem Werke gele- sen, und mich uber die vortreffliche Weise der Darstellung sowie Uber die reiche Sachkenntniss gefreut. Ich halte es filr sehr verdienstlich, dass Sie in Englischer Sprache ein Werk geschaffen haben, welches so gut geeignet ist den Anfanger in diesen schwierigen Gegenstand einzufuhren ; um so mehr als Ihr Werk, so viel ich weiss, das Erste ist, welches nach den meinigen Uber denselben verfasst wurde.—Prof. IVundt, of Leipzig. D'apres ce court resume, le lecteur pent avoir une idee suffisante de la composition generale et de I'esprit de ce livre ; mais I'analyse ne pent faire connaitre I'abondance des informations, le nombre des documents, memoires, monographies, que M. Ladd a utilises. Pour ceux qui suivent le mouve- ment de la psychologic contemporaine dans les divers pays, il est inutile de dire que ce n'est pas la une petite tache. . . . [Sous cette reserve qui ne porte que sur la composition du livre], il faut reconnaitre que cette pre- miere partie est interessante, instructive, riche en informations, exposee avec beaucoup de clarte.—M. Ribot, in Revue Philosophique. Since much the largest part of these psycho-physical researches have been carried out in Germany, there has been a special need of a comprehen- sive and systematic account of them and their results in our own language. And this need has at length been fully and satisfactorily met by Prof. Ladd of Yale University. That an American should be the first to give English speaking students this work is as it should be. He writes at once as a scientist bent on gaining the fullest and clearest insight into the phenomena of mind, and as a metaphysician deeply con- cerned with the sublime question of the nature of the spiritual substance. —James Sully, in The Academy. The treatise is important, and one for which both the physiologist and psychologist are indebted to the writer.—The Westminster Review. Well written, in excellent tone and temper, in clear, even style, free from needless technicalities, and with due regard to the necessary difference between mere speculation or surmises and established facts. —JVew York 7 lines.