Psychology (Briefer Course)

The Divisions of Psychology. — So far as possible, then, we are to study states of consciousness in correlation with their probable neural conditions. Now the nervous system is well understood to-day to be nothing but a machine for receiving impressions and discharging reactions preservative to the individual and his kind — so much of physiology the reader will surely know. Anatomically, therefore, the nervous system falls into three main divisions, comprising — 1) The fibres which carry currents in; 2) The organs of central redirection of them; and 3) The fibres which carry them out.