TRANSLATORS' PREFACE

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 intro¬
ductory character will, it is hoped, render it especially accept,
able both to those beginning the study of psychology, to whom
the technicalities of the author's Grundziige 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 em¬
ployed which has not already received the sanction of well-known
psychological writers.

J. E. Creighton.
E. B. Titchener.

Cornell Universitv, Ithaca, N.Y.
 

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