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INCLUDING THE
INTELLECT, SENSIBILITIES, AND WILL.
BY
JOSEPH HAVEN, D. D., L. L. D.,
LATE PROF. OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
CHICAGO, ILL., AND LATE PROF. OF INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL
PHILOSOPHY IN AMHERST COLLEGE.
IMPROVED EDITION.
NEW YORK:
SHELDON AND COMPANY,
8 Murray Street.
1881
Dr. Haven's Valuable Series of School and
College Text-Books.
MENTAL PHILOSOPHY $2.00
MORAL PHILOSOPHY 1.75
HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY. (In press).
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court Of the District of Massachusetts.
If any apology were necessary for adding yet anotherto the numerous works on Mental Philosophywhich have recently appeared, the circumstances thatled to the preparation of the present volume may,perhaps, constitute that apology.
When called, several years since, to the chair ofMental and Moral Philosophy, in this Institution, thetext-books, then in use, seemed to me not welladapted to the wants of College students. Norwas it easy to make a change for the better. Ofthe works in this department, then generally in usein our Colleges, some presumed on a more extensiveacquaintance with the science than most young menat this stage of education are likely to possess; others,again, erring on the opposite extreme, were deficientin thorough and scientific treatment; while most, ifnot all, were, at the best, incomplete, presenting but[Pg iv]a partial survey of the entire field. In none of themwas the science of mind presented in its completenessand symmetry, in a manner at once simple, yetscientific; in none of them, moreover, was it broughtdown to the present time. Something more complete,more simple, more thorough, seemed desirable.
Every year of subsequent experience as a teacherhas but confirmed this impression, and made the wantof a book better adapted to the purposes of instruction,in our American Colleges, more deeply felt.The works on mental science, which have recentlyappeared in this country, while they are certainly avaluable contribution to the department of philosophy,seem to meet this deficiency in part, but only in part.They traverse usually but a portion of the groundwhich Psychology legitimately occupies, confining theirattention, for the most part, to the Intellectual Faculties,to the exclusion of the Sensibilities, and the Will.
Feeling deeply the want which has been spokenof, it seemed to me, early in my course, that somethingmight be done toward remedying the deficiency,by preparing with care, and delivering to the classes,lectures upon the topics presented in the books, asthey passed along. This course