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 introspective method, liad grown to large dimensions in 40. 



Iiitros]<ec- 



Scotland and in England, long Ijefore Herbart and Beneke t'^t methou. 

 in Germany gave it a similar direction. In fact, most 

 of the writings of the introspective school in Germany, 

 which dates from the midille of the centnry, is con- 

 cerned with the material accumnlated by Ikitish psycho- 

 logists. And even the psycho -physical method itself 

 would carry us only a little way if its results and obser- 

 vations could not continually be checked, supplemented, 

 antl interpreted l>y what we already know by introspec- 

 tion. One of the foremost representatives of the Eng- 

 lish school of psychology has said, and many will agree 

 with him,^ " In our desire to know ourselves — to frame 

 some conception of the flow of our feelings and thoughts 

 — we work at first by introspection purely; and if at a 

 later stage we find means of extending and improving 

 our knowledge, introspection is still our main resort — the 

 Alpha and Omega of psychological inquiry : it is alone 

 supreme, everything else sul)sidiar\'. Its compass is ten 

 times all the other methods put together, and fifty times 

 the utmost range of psycho-physics alone." 



A history of Thought must accordingly contain some 

 account of the view wdiieli our century has taken of the 

 introspective method and the value of the inner sense as 

 a means of enlarging our knowledge." This discussion 



' See Prof. Bain's e.s.^aj- in ' ^liml,' , states, has been not onlj- to develop 



2n(l series, vol. ii. p. 42: "The 

 respective Spheres and mutual 

 Helps of Introspection and Psy- 



a clearer view of physiological psy- 

 chology, but also to define more 

 cleaily the object of psychology 



cho-physical E.xperimcnt in Psy- | proper — that is, of the science 



cliology." I which deals with the facts revealed 



" One result of the modern psycho- | by introspection. When, in the 



l)hysiual view, or of the doctrine of middle of the century, the physiol- 



liarallelism of physical and mental ogy of the senses attracted the 



