Empirical psychology, or, The human mind as given in consciousness : for the use of colleges and academies / by Laurens P. Hickok.

  • Laurens Perseus Hickok
Date:
1855
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    except as they have already been attained in the common consciousness of humanity. It is rather a description of the human mind than a philosophy of it; a psycography rather than a psychology; and should not assume for itself the prerogatives of an exact science. Still, with this renunciation of all claim to a pure science, the attempt has been made to find the human mind as it is, and all its leading facts as they combine to make a complete whole. The aim has been to present all the constituent parts in the light of their reciprocal adaptations to each other, and to show how all depend upon each one, and that each one exists for all, and thus to give the mind through all its faculties as a living unity, complete and consistent in its own organized iden- tity. When a system is thus matured from consciou:- experience, having all the symmetry and unity of the acting reality, it may be known in a qualified sense, as a philosophy, and be termed a science of mind. It is a science, as Chemistry, Geology and Botany are sciences; the study of facts in their combinations as nature gives •them to us, and tt.us teaching what is first learned by careful observation an] experiment. It assumes not to have found those condition^ principles, which determine that the facts must have beei. so; but it may and does from its own consciousness affirm, that the facts are so.