The chapters of this volume were originally prepared as semi-public addresses to illustrate some applications of psychology. Although the content has been freely adapted and supplemented for the present purpose, the style of direct address has been retained in order to conserve, in the printed page, the character of a personal message from one in the technical workshop. For the same reason the lessons for life-economic, hygienic, pedagogical, ethical, aesthetical, religious-which are drawn from the psychological ...
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The chapters of this volume were originally prepared as semi-public addresses to illustrate some applications of psychology. Although the content has been freely adapted and supplemented for the present purpose, the style of direct address has been retained in order to conserve, in the printed page, the character of a personal message from one in the technical workshop. For the same reason the lessons for life-economic, hygienic, pedagogical, ethical, aesthetical, religious-which are drawn from the psychological interpretation of common events are thrown into the foreground and often put in the form of a charge. Instead of writing about the uses of psychology the author has aimed to present actual bits of psychology in intensive illustrations with immediate application to daily life.Parts of chapters have appeared in the journals: the section on the role of play in religion, in the American Journal of Theology; four of the illustrations on mental efficiency, in the Journal of Edu cational Psychology; and the gist of the illustration on the measure of a singer, in Science. The author is indebted to the publishers of these journals for the right to use this material.C. E. S.
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