Psychology as Observation
COUSIN, Victor.
Elements of psychology, included in a critical examination of Locke’s Essay on the human understanding ... translated from the French, with an introduction, notes and additions, by C.S. Henry. Hartford, CT, Cooke and Company, 1834.
8vo, pp. xxxiv, 355, [1]; some foxing, but a good copy in near-contemporary library green buckram, titling and shelfmark stamped in gilt on the spine, upper joint cracked but firm, spine extremities a little worn; New Haven Free Library label on the front free endpaper, their slightly faded stamp on the title.
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Elements of psychology, included in a critical examination of Locke’s Essay on the human understanding ... translated from the French, with an introduction, notes and additions, by C.S. Henry.
First edition in English, and first American edition, translated from the French with an introduction, notes and additions by the Transcendentalist C.S. Henry. This is the first work in English with ‘psychology’ in the title. Cousin’s stress on the importance of method in philosophy led him to identifying observation as the first and foremost step in philosophical enquiry. The observational method applied to consciousness results in the science of psychology, which Cousin regards as the only proper basis of ontology or metaphysics, the science of being, and of the philosophy of history.