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Excerpt from The Princeton Review, Vol. 54: July-December, 1878 I have said that a great want of our times, in order to test at once science and philosophy, is a knowledge of human nature. I point to a full and systematized knowledge of human nature, as this is to be reached through exhaustive analysis of experience, and also by summary of the latest and surest results attained by anatomical and physiological research. Iventure to submit that such knowledge is a want of the times, not merely on the ground that people generally need much enlight enment on the matter, but that this want still exists even in the case of those who are competent guides of others on distinct divisions of the great subject. Scientific men need to come into fuller possession of the results of analysis of mental experi ence. Philosophic thinkers, devoted to the study of all that belongs to mind, need to allow fora more extended study Of the nerve-system, with its great centre and extended ramifica tions. If scientific men declare that human nature, as well as all subordinate organism, must come within the sweep of seien tific inquiry, we have no Opposition to offer to the allegation. But we have to suggest that science comes up with a more diffi cult task here than it has ever encountered before and all men are in possession Of a large amount of material with which to test results. This piece of work is not to be done in the labora tory, or by geological expeditions, or by dredging parties on quiet waters, or by the most detailed observations in natural history. Nor is it to be got through by bringing any amount of fibre and tissue under the microscope. All work in the de partments named has its own place and its recognized value. But when it is proposed to include human nature within a scien tific account of known existence, human nature itself must be studied, and this is the hardest piece of study which scientific men have faced. When Huxley began to study and expound Descartes' Method when Darwin advanced to account for the general acknowledgment Of moral distinctions among men when Tyndall went forward to treat of the interaction of social forces when Haeckel followed Darwin back to a point in the history of creation where could be seen the origin of 21 z' 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.

Download or read book The Princeton Review, Vol. 54 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Princeton Review, Vol. 54: July-December, 1878 I have said that a great want of our times, in order to test at once science and philosophy, is a knowledge of human nature. I point to a full and systematized knowledge of human nature, as this is to be reached through exhaustive analysis of experience, and also by summary of the latest and surest results attained by anatomical and physiological research. Iventure to submit that such knowledge is a want of the times, not merely on the ground that people generally need much enlight enment on the matter, but that this want still exists even in the case of those who are competent guides of others on distinct divisions of the great subject. Scientific men need to come into fuller possession of the results of analysis of mental experi ence. Philosophic thinkers, devoted to the study of all that belongs to mind, need to allow fora more extended study Of the nerve-system, with its great centre and extended ramifica tions. If scientific men declare that human nature, as well as all subordinate organism, must come within the sweep of seien tific inquiry, we have no Opposition to offer to the allegation. But we have to suggest that science comes up with a more diffi cult task here than it has ever encountered before and all men are in possession Of a large amount of material with which to test results. This piece of work is not to be done in the labora tory, or by geological expeditions, or by dredging parties on quiet waters, or by the most detailed observations in natural history. Nor is it to be got through by bringing any amount of fibre and tissue under the microscope. All work in the de partments named has its own place and its recognized value. But when it is proposed to include human nature within a scien tific account of known existence, human nature itself must be studied, and this is the hardest piece of study which scientific men have faced. When Huxley began to study and expound Descartes' Method when Darwin advanced to account for the general acknowledgment Of moral distinctions among men when Tyndall went forward to treat of the interaction of social forces when Haeckel followed Darwin back to a point in the history of creation where could be seen the origin of 21 z' 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.