Social Progress: An Essay (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Thomas Brown, Stuart Mill's 'logic,' Bain's works, and finally Herbert Spencer. The result was an entire mental revolution culminating in a profound convic tion that while German philosophy of the Kantian type was useful as a corrective, the most valuable work in psychology and philosophy belonged to Eng land. This I do not doubt to - day, though German psychological study in special directions has been very fruitful and is worthy of high credit. Psycho logyis certainly entitled to be called a science, although there may be some who still dispute its claims. The unscientific character ascribed to it, however, has been largely owing to the failure of its devotees to cast off metaphysical and speculative connections both in the method of study and in the exhibition of results. It has progressed to a scientific standing by the adop tion of the method of all science, namely, the observa tion of facts and generalisation, wholly irrespective of any metaphysical or transcendental implications. Such implications cannot be excluded from psychological science, but whatever philosophical doctrines are adumbrated or even expressed should follow and not lead the course of psychological thought.

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