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UNDER the above title Prof. Baldwin has written a shorter text book which, as he states in the preface, differs from his larger work, the Handbook of Psychology (reviewed in these pages vol. xliii. p. 100, and vol. xlvi. p. 2) mainly in its omissions. Like its larger predecessor, this book deals largely with “apperception” regarding, erroneously as we think, the selective synthesis observable in mental products as something wholly different from anything which is to be found in other departments of natural knowledge. “In the physical world,” he says, “we find no such unifying force as that known in psychology as the activity of apperception.” Although there is much in this work, as in its predecessor, with which we are in hearty but friendly disagreement, it appears to us to possess the great merit of giving abundant evidence of independent thought and treatment. It will, in the hands of senior students, stimulate them to thought and criticism—such criticism as the teacher who is in earnest welcomes like a breath of keen fresh air. The chief fault of the book is that its pages are somewhat unduly crowded with details.
Elements of Psychology.
By James Mark Baldwin, Professor Elect in Princeton College. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.)
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M., C. Elements of Psychology. Nature 48, 292 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048292a0
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