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Show Psychology. The new science of psychology will determine the mental laws exactly the laws of the individual and of society; the laws of aesthetics, of education, of ethics and of every human faculty. It will compel men to live by these laws, because it will make them plain to all men as plain as the law of gravity. grav-ity. The world will then go forward because it will see how. We shall then have a higher manhood, because its type will be clear to us. We shall have a new art and a new literature, because be-cause we shall know the secrets of beauty. beau-ty. Its standards shall be broader in proportion as they shall be truer. We may then efficiently love our unfortunate unfortu-nate brother by knowing how to make him lovable, and bow to make life lovable lov-able to him. Psychology will secure to man wealth and art, wisdom and happiness, by making man capable of them. Psychology will make education the chief function of government by giving education a scope heretofore un-conceived un-conceived of. McClure's Magazine. |