Excerpt from Psychology: An Account of the Principal Mental Phenomena, With Numerous Examples Billions of human beings must have lived and died on this earth, yet in a sense the mind of every one of them was what the mind of any of us is. Knowledge of this sameness of mind is psychology. Every human mind has sensations through the nerves, perceives things, dreams, remembers matters or forgets them, imagines impossible existences, conceives general notions, exercises judgment, reasons, systematizes, makes inventions, puts forth volitions, is subject to desires affections, and emotions, has some purpose for living, and is connected with the past of the universe. The question arises, in what way can this great theme best beset forth? The answer to which is that, for all purposes, no such way exists. There can be no final presentation Of the subject of psychology, just as there can be no final translation of Homer. One presentation will be useful for one purpose, another for another. No account of the mind has been without its merits. 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.