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It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.

It has been the author's object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that the author has followed in approaching ethical questions.

The present work aims to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life.

The present work aims to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life.

It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.

Wilhelm Wundt is known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. The first person to ever call himself a Psychologist, he is also widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology", having established the first laboratory in the world dedicated to psychological research. This paved the way for psychology as an independent field of study. A prolific writer, this title contains 30 lectures on human and animal psychology given in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This edition was originally published in 1912, a translation of the second German edition, the earlier edition being the first of the author's works to be translated into English.

Wilhelm Wundt is known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. The first person to ever call himself a Psychologist, he is also widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology", having established the first laboratory in the world dedicated to psychological research. This paved the way for psychology as an independent field of study. A prolific writer, this title contains 30 lectures on human and animal psychology given in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This edition was originally published in 1912, a translation of the second German edition, the earlier edition being the first of the author's works to be translated into English.

It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.

rope it was mainly the states of the northern and centrat European areas which succeeded in achieving the extermi nation or at least the regression of brucellosis. (The origi nal plan to present the conditions in Asia and Oceania, in cluding Australia, in maps as weil, and thereby to achieve a comprehensive worldwide review of the known and as certainable distribution of brucellosis, was not, however, practicable. ) Information available from these parts of the world, especially from Asia, is so fragmentary that the great expense required for the compilation of the map did not seem justified. On the other hand it seemed desirable to collate and document these data which had been ac quired as a basis for future research. It is tobe hoped that, at a later date, when more comprehensive data become available, the Heidelberg Academy will be able to decide to support a cartographic presentation of the occurrence of brucellosis in these parts of the world as weil. Last, but not least, the intensive research carried out by bacteriologists had led to the discovery of new species of Brucella, such as B. ovis, B. canis and B. neotomae. Further types - such as Type 4 of B. suis which occurs in reindeer and caribou - were identified. Though these new species and types, which are undoubtedly to be classed with the brucellae, have achieved regional significance in places, the three dassie species B. melitensis, B. abortus and B."

AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY by WILHELM WUNDT. Originally published in 1911. AUTHORS PREFACE: IT is not the intention of this introduction to psychology to discuss the scientific or philo sophical conceptions of psychology, or even to make a survey of the investigations and their results. What this little book attempts is rather to introduce the reader to the prin cipal thoughts underlying present-day experi mental psychology, leaving out many facts and methods which would be necessary for a thorough study of the subject. To omit all mention of experimental methods and their results is at the present day impossible. Yet we only need to consider a comparatively small number of results of the first importance in order to comprehend the basal principles of the new psychology. To characterise the methods of this psychology it would be im possible to omit all reference to experiments, but we can and will omit reference to the more or less complicated instruments on which the carrying out of such experiments depends. I must refer the reader who wishes a fuller account of the new psychology to my Outlines of Psychology, which also contains the necessary bibliography of the subject. W. WUNDT. LEIPBIC, June 1911. TRANSLATORS NOTE: THE present volume is a popular introduction to the Wundtian psychology. It is a shorter and simpler sketch than the same authors Outlines of Psychology, and it should prove invaluable to the English-speaking student who wishes to gain some conception of the subject before entering upon a deeper study of the same. Its popularity in Germany has been phenomenal. In translating the work the translator has, as far as possible, used the same English terms as those employedin the translations of Wundt by Judd and Titchener. He is greatly indebted to Mr. Robert Wilson, M. A., B. Sc., for his advice and help in reading over the manuscript before going to press. RUDOLF PINTNEB. EDINBURGH, May 1912. Contents include: CHAPTER I CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTENTION PA01 Psychology as a description of processes of conscious ness The metronome The rhythmical disposi tion of consciousness The scope of consciousness The threshold of consciousness The fixation point and field of consciousness The focus of attention The scope of attention Apprehen sion and apperception 1 CHAPTER II THE ELEMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Psychical elements and compounds Sensation and idea Memory images and perceptions Quality and intensity of sensations Feelings Difference between sensation and feeling The three pairs of feelingsThe affective process Emotions and moods Volitional processes Motives Instinc tive, voluntary, and discriminative actions The qualities of feelings Feeling and apperception . 43 ix X VAJJH JLJCJ1 XO CHAPTER III ASSOCIATION PAGE Associations and apperceptions The fusion of tones into clangs Spatial and temporal perception Assimilation and dissimilation Direct and re produced forms of the same Complications The recognition and cognition of objects Successive association The so-called feeling of familiarity Secondary ideas The affective processes in re cognition The so-called states of consciousness in forgetting, remembering c...

AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY BY WILHELM WUNDT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OP IHPSZO TRANSLATED FROM THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION BY RUDOLF PINTNER, M. A. EDiN., PH. D. LEIPSIC Publication of the Pdebgogisck Literatw GtsellscJutft Men Bahne LONDON GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN, LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM ST. W. C. i Reprinted Reprinted in Saxony by the Rodar Process from a copy printed At the BALLANTYNE PRESS, EDINBURGH AUTHORS PREFACE IT is not the intention of this introduction to psychology to discuss the scientific or philo sophical conceptions of psychology, or even to make a survey of the investigations and their results. What this little book attempts is rather to introduce the reader to the prin cipal thoughts underlying present-day experi mental psychology, leaving out many facts and methods which would be necessary for a thorough study of the subject. To omit all mention of experimental methods and their results is at the present day impossible. Yet we only need to consider a comparatively small number of results of the first importance in order to comprehend the basal principles of the new psychology. To characterise the methods of this psychology it would be im possible to omit all reference to experiments, but we can and will omit reference to the vi AUTHORS PREFACE more or less complicated instruments on which the carrying out of such experiments depends. I must refer the reader who wishes a fuller account of the new psychology to my Outlines of Psychology, which also contains the necessary bibliography of the subject. W. WUNDT. LEIPBIC, June 1911. TRANSLATORS NOTE THE present volume is a popular introduction to the Wundtian psychology. It is a shorter and simpler sketchthan the same authors Outlines of Psychology, and it should prove invaluable to the English-speaking student who wishes to gain some conception of the subject before entering upon a deeper study of the same. Its popularity in Germany has been phenomenal. In translating the work the translator has, as far as possible, used the same English terms as those employed in the translations of Wundt by Judd and Titchener. He is greatly indebted to Mr. Robert Wilson, M. A., B. Sc., for his advice and help in reading over the manuscript before going to press. RUDOLF PINTNEB. EDINBURGH, May 1912. vii CONTENTS CHAPTER I CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTENTION PA01 Psychology as a description of processes of conscious ness The metronome The rhythmical disposi tion of consciousness The scope of consciousness The threshold of consciousness The fixation point and field of consciousness The focus of attention The scope of attention Apprehen sion and apperception 1 CHAPTER II THE ELEMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Psychical elements and compounds Sensation and idea Memory images and perceptions Quality and intensity of sensations Feelings Difference between sensation and feeling The three pairs of feelingsThe affective process Emotions and moods Volitional processes Motives Instinc tive, voluntary, and discriminative actions The qualities of feelings Feeling and apperception . 43 ix X VAJJH JLJCJ1 XO CHAPTER III ASSOCIATION PAGE Associations and apperceptions The fusion of tones into clangs Spatial and temporal perception Assimilation and dissimilation Direct and re produced forms of the same Complications The recognition and cognition of objects Successive association The so-called feeling of familiarity Secondary ideas Theaffective processes in re cognition The so-called states of consciousness in forgetting, remembering c...

The sacrificial meal... has assumed the most varied forms, largely as a result of the secularisation of its ends. We have it, e.g., in the 'celebration' dinner held in joyful remembrance of important family occurrences, or of important public events. We have it, again, in a form peculiar to modern civilization, in the public banquet, where it serves as the material basis for the prosecution of municipal, political or professional interests. -from "The Individual Forms of Life: Food" One of the founding fathers of the modern-day disciplines of experimental and cognitive psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, in this extraordinary work, examines the concept of ethics as a cornerstone of metaphysics, as the basis for an understanding of the universe as a whole. Translated from the second German edition of 1892, here we see all aspects of human behavior and culture-from how we eat to how, and who, we worship-as an interconnected whole, including: . "good" and "bad" . the immoral elements of myth . the gods as moral ideals . the anthropomorphic nature-myth . moral laws as religious commands . the relation of custom to law and morality . polite manners and personal deportment . the family and the tribal union . the feeling of community in nation and state . the invention of tools . the idea of civilization . and much more. OF INTEREST TO: students of psychology, readers of comparative mythology AUTHOR BIO: German psychologist WILHELM MAXIMILIAN WUNDT (1832-1920) was professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He wrote numerous articles and books in the field of psychology, including the foundational Principles of Physiological Psychology (1874).