WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS TO EDUCATION AND INCLUDING AN OUTLINE OF LOGIC. FOR THE USE OF HIGH SCHOOLS, NORMAL SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES BY JAMES H. BAKER, A. M., LL.D., PRESIDENT OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF COLO DENVER HIGH SCHOOL. FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF WITH COMPLIMEN MAYNARD, OF RILL, & Co. NEW YORK: MAYNARD, MERRILL, & Co., 43, 45 AND 47 EAST TENTH STREET. 1893. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF MR. & MRS. HENRY H. BOND COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY EFFINGHAM MAYNARD & Co. PREFACE. THIS work is an attempt to present, with applications, the more important principles of Psychology in a clear and concise form, arranged for High and Normal schools and adapted to the use of teachers and the general reader. The plan of the work, formed several years since, and pursued throughout the period of its preparation, is as follows: 1. The topics are selected for their essential importance, and are treated concisely. 2. Such metaphysical discussion as does not belong to an elementary work is omitted or placed in footnotes. The importance of Physiological Psychology is duly regarded. 3. Practical applications of the science are made to Education and the Conduct of Life. 4. In connection with Thinking an outline of Logic is presented. 5. The presentation of many of the topics is inductive in the sense that typical instances precede the statement of principles. For emphasis and convenience the definitions and many principles, summaries, and inferences are printed in different type. 6. For fuller views on some of the topics and for |