Excerpt from Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology The present volume is the first of Professor Wundt's writings to be made generally accessible to the English-speaking public. Its comparatively popular and introductory character will, it is hoped, render it especially acceptable both to those beginning the study of psychology, to whom the technicalities of the author's Grundzuge would present very considerable difficulties, and to workers in other departments of science who may desire some knowledge of the methods and results of the new psychological movement. The translators have endeavoured throughout to retain the oral form of the original lectures. They have aimed, at the same time, to furnish a literal, as distinguished from a verbal, rendering of the German text. In view of the confusion which still obtains in English psychological terminology, they have attempted a precise use of words even at the occasional cost of literary effect. No word or phrase, however, has been employed which has not already received the sanction of well-known psychological writers. About the Publisher 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.