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to describe what he does see, and without the assumptions contained in our 

 habitual forms of speech which have registered the experiences and thoughts of 

 countless generations of men, then the ordinary man would be brought to repro- 

 duce in inverse order the analysis which I have indicated from the Idealist's 

 standpoint. 



The matters which I have set out here in bare outline form the gist of the 

 exposition of the two volumes of Psychology : A New System, and I refer readers 

 to that book for a detailed exposition. 



I say that in establishing the Fundamental Processes of the mind, and show- 

 ing that no other assumption of processes is necessary in the highest development 

 of thought, I have given the solution to the great central problem of Psychology. 



Such an analysis is sufficient for those who simply desire to know philosophi- 

 cally the secret of the mechanism of thought ; but there are others who are not 

 content until they can see the application of a system in particular examples. 

 They want " results." From this system, however, corollaries of high importance 

 spring up in such fertility as rather to disconcert those who, asking for something 

 new, are themselves anchored to false positions. 



Necessarily, as we see from the threshold, the system must affect the whole 

 domain to which the word " Education " is applicable. This study should be 

 regarded as of the same vital importance to education in any form as anatomy is, 

 say, to orthopaedics. It is true that generations of educational authorities have 

 issued rules without knowing anything of this analysis, but it is also true that 

 generations of men have performed surgical operations in ignorance of anatomy. 

 They have often bungled without knowing why they bungled. That is true of the 

 educational authorities. 



In more definite instances : I will, out of thousands of applications to problems 

 in mental science, indicate two or three of special importance. The Transcen- 

 dental philosophy of Kant has dominated orthodox circles of thought, and particu- 

 larly the great Universities, for generations. I deal with that philosophy in a 

 manner analogous to that in which Lavoisier treated the theory of phlogiston. 

 He brought it to a definite test. The pith of the Kantean system consists in the 

 conception of a Transcendental world in which Pure Reason and Will coalesce. 



I subject the processes or faculties of Reason and Will to an analysis far more 

 searching and minute than anything Kant has shown — I reduce them to terms of 

 the Fundamental Processes — and I demonstrate that because, viewed in regard 

 to their elemental structure, they are differently composed, then neither in the 

 Transcendental world, nor in any other, can they coalesce. 



Another of the sacred doctrines of the Universities, and of the Medical 

 schools the world over, is that of Broca's Convolution, the third left frontal con- 

 volution. 



I have shown, from consideration of psychology, that here one is less able to 

 decide that the doctrine is right or wrong than to affirm that the enunciation of 

 the doctrine usually given involves misconceptions of the nature of the phenomena 

 in question. Here, it happens, I can cite authority, though I do not wish to have 

 recourse to that in support of my arguments. Dr. Marie, working at Broca's own 

 hospital, the Salpetriere, and with cases more numerous and better selected for the 

 purpose than those of his predecessor, comes to conclusions, on the clinical and 

 histological side, which bear out what I have set forth with more particularity on 

 the psychological side. . . . 



In the field of Association again I have developed the scope, and shown the 

 power, of this system, if only in its adapted use as a means of investigation. 



