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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE POSITION OF THE SCIENCE. 33. Until quite recently, universal opinion assigned Psychology to the special group of Moral Sciences which were held to be diametrically opposed to the Physical Sciences, both in the matters treated of and in the Methods of Inquiry. The sciences of Human Nature were supposed to have so little in common with the sciences of Nature that their logic and means of verification were different. Men believed in the co-existence of two independent orders of events, having their common ground in a world beyond, namely, the Suprasensible, ?which as dogma was claimed by Theology, and as science by Metaphysic. God, Man, and Nature thus constituted three objects of knowledge, accessible through three different avenues. Physics, the study of Nature, slowly emancipated itself from Theology and Metaphysics, and was suffered to pursue its own Method. The Moral Sciences continued to form a class apart, even when they had so far emancipated themselves as to disengage their special object, the facts and laws of Human Nature. This was followed by a .recognition that Man, being a part of Nature, ought to be studied on the Methodwhich alone had proved successful in the study of Nature. But even this recognition was restricted to the bodily functions of man; the old bias still asserted itself with'regard to the mental functions. Without boldly affirming that, as a thinking being, Man was not a part of Nature, philosophers insisted that Thought had nothing in common with Nature; differing sui generis, it could not be amenable to the same canons. The scholastic dogma that Mind was exclusively appropriated by the theologian, while the Body, with all its sensible affections, was handed over to the student of Nature, although not explicitly avowed, was impli...