Excerpt from Elements of Physiological Psychology: A Treatise of the Activities and Nature of the Mind From the Physical and Experimental Point of View 2. Perhaps the most common definition of psychology, up to the present time, has regarded it as the science of the human soul. If this definition had always been given, on beginning the pursuit of the science, only in a provisional way, and with the implied or Open confession that it is the business of psychology itself to de monstrate the existence of a particular entity called the soul, and. 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.