Science and the Human Mind: A Critical and Historical Account, of the Development of Natural Knowledge (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Science and the Human Mind: A Critical and Historical Account, of the Development of Natural Knowledge

Psychology is extending every year the know ledge of mind and its processes, conscious and un conscious. Man, as a piece of work, noble in reason, infinite in faculty, is finding himself to be the foremost problem of the age. New light has been thrown on the theory of knowledge and on the difficult problem of how knowledge at all comes to be possible to a being whose frame is but the quintessence of dust. For the human mind is the agent which has built up the goodly edifice of applied thought to be examined in the succeeding pages, and rightly claims a place in the record of the construction.

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Excerpt from Science and the Human Mind: A Critical and Historical Account, of the Development of Natural Knowledge

Though there are many histories of the different branches of science and of science itself, a general survey of the progress of natural knowledge in its relation to other fields of human thought seems not previously to have been written. This attempt to supply the need does not pretend to give a detailed account of the growth of the various sciences. It is evident that almost every section could be expanded into a volume, and each chapter heading could appropriately become the title for an exhaustive treatise. We have deliberately constrained ourselves to produce an outline, rather than the fuller study towards which we were frequently tempted. We have set out to tell in plain language the story of the separation of science from the association with theology and philosophy by which, of necessity, its origins were beset. We have tried to recount the marvellous extension of natural knowledge, following on the liberation of science; to trace and to justify the rise of a mechanical theory of life, and to explain the recent tendency once more to recognize its limitations.

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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.