Psychologia Empirica

A rectangular headpiece featuring symmetrical acanthus leaf scrollwork and floral motifs within a double-line border.

PREFACE.

Ornamental drop cap 'P' decorated with foliage and fruit (possibly pomegranates or pinecones).We bring to light the first part of psychology, which we have been accustomed to call empirical, for the reason that it delivers accounts concerning the soul which are learned with experience as our teacher, by extracting notions from those things which we observe within ourselves. This discipline promises the greatest of benefits. In it, the individual faculties of the human soul are explained, which we employ as much in knowing things, as in managing affairs, as in determining free actions. Logic teaches the use of the faculty of knowing, especially the higher faculty, which we call the intellect,

(Wolff’s Psychology)