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Excerpt from A Syllabus of Elementary Lectures in Psychology, Delivered in the University of Toronto 1. All possible objects of human contemplation may be grouped as follows: (a) Material things; (b) Minds; (c) The Divine or Absolute Being. 2. The first group includes all the elements and forces of nature; those things which fall under the cognizance of the senses : and whose investigation is the special business of the physical sciences. These sciences may therefore be called objective or cosmological. 3. The second group includes all intelligence, wherever we find it. By intelligence is meant, that which feels and knows, as distinguished from that which is felt and known. The investigation of intelligence cannot be done directly by the senses, but is the work of consciousness itself. These studies arc therefore subjective or psychological. 4. The third heading stands for that existence upon which all other existence depends. This absolute existence cannot lie known by the senses, nor even by the ordinary intellectual powers, but must be apprehended in a high moral or spiritual intuition. Its study, therefore, is transcendent or ontological. 5. In accordance with this classification, human studies may be grouped, as regards their subject matter, into physical, mental, and theological sciences. 6. Psychology finds its place in this classification as mental science, or the investigation of intelligence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.