the Wire Prodam ar di
the Sacralness Men

:: Every Person is a da

2: A Prime Candicem sa All PANA

1; A Test of Mural Pregresa

II. The Power of Personal Association

1. Influence of Imitation、、、、、

z. One Must be Won to Character

3. We

We are Made for Personal Relationa

4. One Cannot Learn to Love Alone

5. Personal Association the Greatest Means

is

it

e

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(1) Object Must Continually Change for Us.

(2) The Possession of a Large Circle of Interests. 191

(3) Persistent Staying in the Presence of the Best.

III. Objectivity a Prime Condition of Character, and Happi-

ness, and Influence

IV. Work a Chief Means to Character, and Happiness, and

192

192

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THE CONCRETENESS OF THE REAL-THE

INTER-RELATEDNESS OF ALL

CHAPTER XI

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THE CONCRETENESS OF THE REAL THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVI-

DENCE, CONFIRMED BY THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT

210

I. The General Trend in Psychology Toward Recogni-

tion of this Concreteness

II. The Mind Made for Relations.

III. One Reason for the Place and Power of Art and

Literature..

210

213

215

216

IV. The Influence of the Idea of the Organism in the His-

tory of Thought.

1. The Idea of the Organism Before Hegel

2. The Idea of the Organism in Hegel

3. The Idea of the Organism Since Hegel

V. A New Protest Constantly Needed in the Interest of the

VI. The Emphasis on Persons and Personal Relations-

The Social Self . .

1. The Human Body Looks to Personal Association

2. The Witness of Infancy. .

3. The Witness of the Moral History of the Race

4. The Witness of Philosophy

5. The Whole Man, Revealed only in Personal Rela-

tions

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CHAPTER XII

THE CONCRETENESS OF THE REAL-SUGGESTIONS FOR LIVING

I. Respect for the Liberty and the Personality of Others

1. Recognition of the Moral Freedom of Others

2. Recognition of the Sacredness of the Person

(1) Every Person is an End in Himself.

(2) A Prime Condition in All Friendship

(3) A Test of Moral Progress

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RATIONAL LIVING

INTRODUCTION

THE FOUR GREAT INFERENCES FROM MODERN
PSYCHOLOGY

ONE of the marked characteristics of this realistic age of ours is the enormous amount of investigation that has been given in the last thirty years to empirical psychology. Wundt's epoch-making Outlines of Physiological Psychology was published as late as 1874, and his Leipsic psychological laboratorythe first in the world-was not founded until 1879. No other department of study directly connected with philosophy has had anything like equal attention, or made anything like equal growth. And in no other department has America had so noteworthy a share, as the literature of the subject clearly shows. Such extended and thorough-going study of the nature of man, ought certainly to have some meaning for practical living. It con