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stands, for humanity. My sensorium and motorium give 

 me direct connection with the universe. I have my head- 

 quarters for life in my cerebrum. In some unknown vvay 

 I think, love and decide in and through my cerebral ganglia 

 and their connections. I cannot comprehend it ; this knowl- 

 edge is too high for me ; but I know that self is generated 

 with the body, lives in it, works through it, and leaves it at 

 death." Baldwin. 



Psychology may be defined as the science of 

 the soul. In its broadest application it includes 

 all the mental phenomena that belong to a senti- Psychology 

 ent being. Psychology as used in pedagogy is the 

 science of the mind; mind signifying simply the 

 sum total of all man's conscious thoughts and 

 sensations. Physiological psychology is the 

 science of mental processes as related to the 

 nervous system. The new psychology as taught 

 by students of psychic phenomena, includes both 

 of these, together with the science of the subject- 

 ive mind. 



The study of metaphysics and mental phe- 

 nomena antedates history. How much the ancient 

 psychists knew of occult power and psychic law is 

 now a matter of speculation. It would seem, how- 

 ever, that they were further advanced in these 

 matters than is the present generation. The cur- 

 rent psychology is yet in its speculative state. 

 Even the most advanced students differ widely in 

 their conceptions of the divisions of the mind and 

 the nature of the ego. The German school of 

 psychology tends strongly toward dualism, the 

 English toward monism, while the American 

 school is divided between the two. 



The present psychology of pedagogy, or the 

 system of mental philosophy used in most Normal 



