Author of “The Problems of Psychical Research,” “Modern Psychical Phenomena,” “The Coming Science,” etc. The word “Psychology” originally meant the study of the _soul_. The human soul was thought to be a sort of entity, exhibiting qualities or “faculties,” which became manifest to us as various psychological manifestations. The last century saw the gradual development of a “psychology without a soul”--a psychology based upon the study of _mind_, as manifested in human beings; it therefore became the study of consciousness.…
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