| Summary: | "This book lays no claim either to systematic completeness or to popularity understood in the widest sense of the word. It contains, of course, a general system, which has been elaborated in treatises and text-books in the course of time; but this has been interrupted in many ways by physical and physiological explanations, which a proper treatment of the subject required, and it has therefore been found necessary to subject it to many changes in order to give it a popular appearance. So far the author has aimed at popularity: but he has endeavoured at times to take the reader a step beyond the domain of ordinary popular treatises; and, if he has not succeeded in smoothing his path sufficiently, he entreats the reader's forbearance"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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