19 Feb. 1815

Didacologia

Ch. Art & Science Division

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Simple perception, simple remembrance, enjoyment i.e. sensation of pleasure - sufferance i.e. sensation of pain - attention, reflection, examination, judgment or opinion or judicial determination, volition, volitional determination, internal action, external action - all these, on one and the same occasion, indeed on most occasions, all these several accidents are taking place at the same time; but, in the way of abstraction, for the purpose of science, any one of them, every one of them, may be, and has bee, detached from the rest, and held up to view, and subjected to examination by itself. So many of these incidents as are capable of being distinguished from each other, so many compartments or separate fields are included within the vast all-comprehensive field of psychology.

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