Excerpt from Mind, Vol. 8: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy; 1883 Otherwise, it may perhaps be claimed that the past volumes of mind have not succeeded one another to no purpose. They have kept English readers, for the last seven years, better informed than they would else have been of the psychological and philosophical movements in other countries, and they have given a representation that cannot be called other than impartial of the manifold currents of thought running among the English-speaking race here and in America. If at times some forms of Opinion have seemed to assert themselves more than others, the fault lay with the others that chose to assert themselves less. It became clear from the beginning that the number of English thinkers, at the present day, who cared to have a clearly defined psycho logical basis was very small: not that any can be without their psychology, but that most are of Opinion either that it Supplies no basis for philosophical consideration or that they can get on very well without thought of it. All who had anything serious to say have, therefore, from the first been encouraged to deliver themselves of their message, whatever it might be; and while I reflect with satisfaction that the chief Opponent, in this generation, of the English philoso phical tradition was using the Journal for the exposition of his matured conclusions when a cruel fate snapt on a sudden the thread of his life, I can truly say that no philosophical contribution offered has ever been declined on the ground of its being of one cast of thought rather than of another. As this has been the rule in the past, so is there a fixed deter mination that it shall be in the future. Nor does compre hensiveness of this kind mean philosophical indifference the absence of all conviction in one who seeks to practise it. It may, perhaps, be taken rather as a Sign of understanding that in philosophy there is room for differences of view, which need clearing in relation to one another while they remain differences. There is urgent need, in the present state of philosophical speculation, for that free and direct interchange of thought from Opposite sides which mind has done something to promote and may yet do more. Mutual understanding - not agreement - is the object to be first striven for. It is with some thought of helping in that direction that the following pages are now written. 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.