Psychology - A Resume ( Originally Published 1916 ) THE aims
with which we set out were : to study in the light of modern
psychology the characteristic endowments of human nature, the
native tendencies and powers which, as they are called into
activity by the challenge of outward conditions, determine to a
large extent the course of the unfolding of personality : and to
present incidentally a view of education which has the unfolding
of personality as its central aim. With regard to the first of
these aims, what we have done has been—starting from the
fundamental conceptions of a primary nucleus and a development
from it, analogous to the processes of growth ; first, to trace
out man's instinctive tendencies, which are not only an initial
source of energy but continue, side by side with what is derived
from experience, to be a source of energy in all our mental
activity ; then, to follow the course of the mental process in
one or two of its more salient aspects, noting (a) the combining
of instinctive tendenc