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A theory of the genetic basis of appeal in literature

Possibly the most clearly distinguishing feature of the psychology of our time as compared with that of a generation ago is the relative by greater importance accorded the subject of psychic growth. The older psychology for the most part contented itself with defining a variety of terms which popular speech had already devised to name such different aspects of psychic life as the general consciousness recognized. The older texts go to great extremes in elaborating these subtle distinctions, many an exhaustive treatise or argument being spun, like the spider's web, out of the consciousness of the writer and applicable, if at all, only to creatures like himself, namely, the male members of cultured society.

But the old psychology, like the old botany and the old zoology, has given place to a science different from if&lf in motive and in scope. Cordially accepting the doctrine of evolution and its logical correlates, psychology has adopted the point of view characteristic of the biological sciences of today, and conceives the most vital fact of the universe to be, not that things are, but that they become.

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