ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGY
Outlines of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
by
WILHELM WUNDT
Authorized Translation by Edward Leroy Schaub, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy in Northwestern University
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
New York: The Macmillan Company
_First published: July 1916._
_Revised edition: April 1921._
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
The keen interest which the present age is manifesting in problems connected with the interpretation of human experience is no less a result than it is a precondition of the fruitful labours of individual scholars. Prominent among these is the distinguished author of the volume which is herewith rendered accessible to English readers. The impetus which Professor Wundt has given to the philosophical and psychological studies of recent years is a matter of common knowledge.
Many of those who are contributing richly to these fields of thought received their stimulus from instruction directly enjoyed in the laboratory and the classrooms of Leipzig. But even more than to Wundt, the teacher, is the world indebted to Wundt, the investigator and the writer. The number and comprehensiveness of this author's publications, as well as their range of subjects, are little short of amazing. To gauge the extent of their influence would require an examination of a large part of current philosophical and psychological literature. …