CHARLES VAN NORDEN, D. D., LL. D. LATE PRESIDENT OF ELMIRA COLLEGE NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1894 B HAR AND COLLEGE LICY LIBRARY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 1930 COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED AT THE APPLETON PRESS, U. S. A. PREFACE. THE purpose and spirit of this little book is strictly scientific. If any justification for its appearance be needed, the public will find ample in the unsettled condition of the metaphysical world, in the marvelous strides of biological and psychical discovery, and the utter demoralization of the old psychology. The Psychic Factor is not addressed to the populace, nor yet to original investigators, but to students. It is intended to embody the trustworthy results of safe thought in the realm of current psychology. |