272 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



advanced from the study of physiology to that of the 

 phenomena of conscious life. Thus his German treatise 

 deals almost entirely with physiological and experimental 

 psychology, the development of the Herbartian school in 

 the direction of the psychology of the objective mind 

 receiving only short notice, and no mention being made 

 of important psychological analyses of fundamental 

 psychical forces such as are, e.g., contained in the works 

 of Schleiermacher, Feuerbach, Schopenhauer, and Von 

 Hartmann. Nevertheless it may be noted here that the 

 very different psychological analysis of the phenomena of 

 religious life by the two first-named thinkers, and the 

 emphasis laid by Schopenhauer on the will and by Von 

 Hartmann on the unconscious, have probably done more 

 to change and deepen our ideas on the life of the human 

 soul than all the purely psychological analysis and 

 researches of the introspective and experimental schools 

 put together. So far as the experimental or exact 

 methods are concerned, I have reported so fully upon 

 them in the chapter on Psycho-Physics in the second 

 volume of this History that I need not in this connec- 

 tion say anything more about them. 



But M. Ptibot and the school which he represents in 



Prance have enlarged the field of psychological research 



51- in a special direction, of which already the older French 



Morbid ^ ' •' 



psychology, psychologists, who are classed among the " Ideologues," 

 had a very distinct notion. In their writings we read of 

 a definite branch of science called " Nosologic," a theory 

 of disease, and of the importance of this science both for 

 psychology and medicine. In fact, the tendency to 

 treat of the abnormal states, both of the body and the 



