Excerpt from The Princeton Review: July-December, 1880 An opinion has gained wide acceptance that much more is to be assigned to habit than has yet been fully recognized. This is nothing more than a floating opinion, nevertheless it is play ing a not unimportant part in determining the mental attitude oi'an influential circle of thinkers. What account is to be made of man as an agent, relatively to the higher orders of animals, is a question whose whole meaning is affected by the latent sup position that man is a bundle of habits which if fully inter preted would prove such_in their nature and conditions as to place him little above the higher animals, and that little could be easily measured by relative complexity of organism. Both philosophy and science are responsible for encouragement of hypothesis, and not without reason is it maintained that hypo theses render real service in the history of investigation. 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.