Excerpt from Psychologic Foundations of Education: An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the Higher Faculties of the Mind Education has use for psychology only in so far as it shows the development of mind into higher activi ties and the method of such development. What if the psychologist happens to know and-recognise only the lower faculties, and to be ignorant of all but the names of the higher ones? It is evident that he will conceive under those names only the lower activities with which he is acquainted. This has, in fact, hap pened often. Perception of individuals is all that inventory-psychology thinks under conception and generalization. The understanding with its relativ ity doctrine is all that some followers of Kant think under the name reason. 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.