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Title: The Story of the Mind

Author: James Mark Baldwin

Release Date: February 6, 2007 [EBook #20522]

Language: English

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THE

STORY OF THE MIND

BY

JAMES MARK BALDWIN

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1905

COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1902,

BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

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PREFACE.

In this little book I have endeavoured to maintain the simplicity
which is the ideal of this series. It is more difficult, however, to
be simple in a topic which, even in its illustrations, demands of the
reader more or less facility in the exploration of his own mind. I am
persuaded that the attempt to make the matter of psychology more
elementary than is here done, would only result in making it untrue
and so in defeating its own object.

In preparing the book I have secured the right and welcomed the
opportunity to include certain more popular passages from earlier
books and articles. It is necessary to say this, for some people are
loath to see a man repeat himself. When one has once said a thing,
however, about as well as he can say it, there is no good reason that
he should be forced into the pretence of saying something different
simply to avoid using the same form of words a second time. The
question, of course, is as to whether he should not then resign
himself to keeping still, and letting others do the further speaking.
There is much to be said for such a cour