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PSYCHOLOGY
AN ELEMENTARY TEXT-BOOK
BY
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HALLE; AUTHOR OF
“ÜBER DAS GEDÄCHTNIS,” “GRUNDZÜGE DER PSYCHOLOGIE,” ETC.;
EDITOR OF THE “ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR PSYCHOLOGIE”
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
MAX MEYER
PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
BOSTON, U.S.A.
D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS
1908{ii}Copyright, 1908,
By D. C. Heath & Co.
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
The present book is a free translation of Ebbinghaus’s “Abriss derPsychologie” (Veit & Co., Leipzig, 1908). It is intended primarily toserve as a text-book for college students, but it should appeal also tothe general reader. It will commend itself through its brevity and theexcellent proportions of the material selected. The translator becameinterested in this book because of the fact that the author hassucceeded in keeping entirely free of all fads, and has presented onlythat which is generally accepted by psychological science; on the otherhand, he has given to the highest constructive processes of the humanmind, religion, art, and morality, the attention which they deservebecause of their tremendous importance for human life.
In some places the original text has been somewhat condensed,particularly in the description of the anatomy of the nervous system insection 2. Section 4 of the original has been omitted, since itscontents seemed to be sufficiently emphasized in the other sections ofthe book. The numbers of the following sections differ, therefore, fromthose of the German text. The translator regards this as insignificant,since hi