THE ELEMENTS OF INTELLECTUAL SCIENCE. A MANUAL FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. ABRIDGED FROM "THE HUMAN INTELLECT.' By NOAH PORTER, D.D., LL.D. PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER & COMPANY. PREFACE. IN accordance with the wishes of many instructors and friends of education, the author has prepared an abridged. edition of his work entitled, The Human Intellect, which was first published in 1868. In doing this, he has retained all the leading positions of the original work, with many of the illustrations, occasionally condensing the language, and not infrequently changing the order and method of the argument. Many important topics, less adapted to an elementary work, have been omitted altogether. The controversial and critical observations, have to a large extent been dropped, or greatly abridged. The historical matter has been in part retained, so far as seemed appropriate to a strictly elementary manual. In order, however, to meet the wants of schools, as well as of colleges, some of the matter which is less adapted to beginners, has been printed in smaller type. This may be reserved for a review, or omitted altogether. The author did not feel at liberty, however, to forego for the sake of beginners, a thorough discussion of the. important speculative questions which occupy the concluding part of the treatise. For the convenience of those teachers and pupils who may wish to consult the larger work the leading divisions and titles in both volumes are the same. With many thanks for the favor with which the previous treatise has been received, this manual is now offered to the public, and especially to teachers and pupils in schools and colleges. YALE COLLEGE, July, 1871. N. P. 21. Psychology and kindred terms. 2. Psychology is a science. relations to physiology and anthropology. 4. Its phenomena known by con- ? 13. Psychology is a branch of physics. 14. Reasons why its facts are at first distrusted by the student. 15. Material phenomena are the earliest known. ? 16. Materialistic misgivings and impressions. 17. These should be set aside. In what way. 18. The arguments of the materialist. (1). The soul is con- nected with a body-2. The soul is developed with the body-3. Is dependent on the body for its knowledge and enjoyment-4. Also for its energy and activity--- 5. It terminates a series of material existences-The conclusion of the materialist. 2 19. Counter arguments. (1). Its phenomena are unlike material phenomena― 2. The soul distinguishes itself from matter-3. The soul is self-active-4. Is not dependent on matter in its highest activities-5. Gradation of existence does not prove the soul to be material. 20. The phenomena of the soul real. § 21. Phe- nomena of one sort cannot be judged by those of another. 22. The phenomena, and language in which they are described. ? 23. Misleading influence of lan- 25. Faculties not parts or organs- 26. States of the soul are like ? 24. Question concerning the faculties. Each faculty does not act at a separate time. |