Show Professor Stewarts Stewart's Lecture We submit the following synopsis of f Professor Stewarts Stewart's lecture II The Psychical Psychical I chical History of the Individual Individual- and the the Races delivered Tuesday y l March Science makes experience and reason the basis of all truth The mind itself can originate no knowledge knowledge-it it t can can act act only as it is acted upon by the external world Science claim the right to investigate investigate investigate in in- doubt or believe whatever may be assumed to be he truth The scientist follows the truth whether so ever it may le lead d without prejudice dice and without favor I L LI cL I 1 I t i M Tr Truth th is truth whereVer er it its found Whether on Christian or on he heathen then ground 1 True scientific investigation demands honesty and freedom though all on ones one's s 's prejudices ices and beliefs are rent asunder The only guide is truth and th the only authority is unbiased interpretation tation of f it Psychology has done dope for the subjective subjective tive world what the natural and physical physical ical i- i cal sciences nc have d done ne for the objective world Each natural object or or force force in in inthe inthe the physical world odd was once a mystery and so was each mental mental act or feeling It has been the mis mission ion of science science nce to gradually dispel these mysteries one by byone byone byone one through the light of scientific truth Psychology is a study of states state of consciousness consciousness con con- in the same manner manner- as science science is a study of th the physical forces As we know the present changes in the physical world by connecting them with the past so in the psychical world we know present thought and feeling by connecting them with past thou thought ht and fee feeling ing Th The mind in knowing feeling and willing is progressively evolved in con con- Knowledge is reached along the line of instinct perception memory imagination conception and reason feeling along the line of sensation organic organic organic or or- ganic feeling intellectual feeling tic feeling moral moral and and religious feeling will along the line of impulse interest attention choice motive and vo f r The evol evolution ion of the individual is typical of the evolution of the race The Th Thrace race began like the individual with instinct sensation and impulse and find it has in its highest civilization pas passed d through all the stages of growth represented in the evolution of the j individual l. l The past tho thought and feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing of the race as handed down to us through hist history ry literature and art enabled enabled enabled en en- scientists to understand the physical cal al changes hanges of the race consciousness as expressed in our present political cal m moral ral and rel religious development development |