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DR. EDRIDGE-GREEN considers that the human mind is divisible into “ultimate faculties,” a list of which he gives. Of these “ultimate faculties” some thirty-seven are assigned to this position with certainty. Dr. Green has no doubt whatever about their fitness to be considered “ultimate faculties,” although amongst them are such qualities as Causality, Alimentiveness, and Inhabitiveness. Others there are, such as Vitativeness and Human Nature, whose position as ultimate faculties of the human mind is still sub judice. Dr. Green might, we think, have postponed the publication of this book until he had made up his mind about them. Part of the book is devoted to the description of a system of cultivating the memory; but there is the best possible evidence that either Dr. Green does not himself utilise this system, or the system is worthless. He would certainly never have published a work on psychology without acquainting himself with the present state of knowledge upon the subject. Yet he has forgotten the whole of his psychological studies as completely as if they had never existed. If his system were one for cultivating the art of forgetfulness, and were a perfect system, the result could not be more complete.
Memory and its Cultivation.
By F. W. Edridge-Green (International Scientific Series.) Pp. 307. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1897.)
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Memory and its Cultivation. Nature 57, 197 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057197b0
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