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Excerpt from The Elements of Psychology on the Principles of Beneke: Stated and Illustrated in a Simple and Popular Manner The translator of the present work found himself suddenly in wont of a Manual of Psychology which should he at once systematic, intelligible, brief, plausible, and, above all things, suggestive. No English treatise seemed exactly to satisfy all these conditions, especially the last, and hence the Lehrbuch der Psychologie by Dr. Beneke was at first selected; but as it was found that there was neither time nor health to turn it into English soon enough for the purpose for which it was required, the compendium of the same author's theory by Raue and Dressler was substituted for it. The version was completed in a few weeks, and some competent judges to whom it was shewn, were pleased to express the opinion that it ought not to be confined to the narrow circle of students for whoso use and benefit it was originally intended and executed: hence the publication of it. The translator, however, desires it to be distinctly understood that he by no means identifies himself with Beneke's opinions. The determinism of the system, (for though a stout defender of what he calls Moral Freedom, Beneke is after all a determinist) - its mechanical and physical metaphors occasionally, perhaps often, taken for something more than mere figures of speech, - even its extreme simplicity, to mention no other reasons, might all be urged as objections to its truth. Still, be its defects what they may, it is well-deserving of study, and it would be difficult to mention a theory more ingenious, concatenated, and complete. 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.