. History of psychology; a sketch and an interpretation. ces alike,mental as well as physical. It proved mostdifficult of realisation, however, in psychologyand the moral sciences. The Renewal of Mysticism.—After an intervalof two and a half centuries, the tradition ofmystic illumination renewed itself in Italy andGermany. A group of mystic thinkers in whomthe romanticism of the Renaissance shows itselfis composed of Paracelsus (i 493-1541), Telesius(1508-1588), Campanella (1568-1639), GiordanoBruno (1548-1600) and others, principally Ital- insistence on the utilitarian or pragmatic function a
. History of psychology; a sketch and an interpretation. ces alike,mental as well as physical. It proved mostdifficult of realisation, however, in psychologyand the moral sciences. The Renewal of Mysticism.—After an intervalof two and a half centuries, the tradition ofmystic illumination renewed itself in Italy andGermany. A group of mystic thinkers in whomthe romanticism of the Renaissance shows itselfis composed of Paracelsus (i 493-1541), Telesius(1508-1588), Campanella (1568-1639), GiordanoBruno (1548-1600) and others, principally Ital- insistence on the utilitarian or pragmatic function andvalue of knowledge, in the article Bacon, Encyclo-padia Britannica, loth edition. The object of knowledge toBacon is the control of nature by man {imperuim hominis). ^ Novum Organuni, Part I, English edition, with Notesand Introduction by Fowler (2nd ed., 1889). 2 Bacons classification is based upon the analysis of thefaculties of knowledge into memory, imagination, andreason, which underlie respectively history, poetry, andphilosophy with Francis Bacon. {Copyright. Reproduced by kind permission of the Open Court PublishingCo., Chicago, ) The Interpretation of Dualism 123 ians. ^ These men show a breaking up of classicaltheories into disjecta membra, and (as seen inTelesius particularly) the bizarre rearrangementof the fragments, mingled with detached originalapergus. A valuable departure was made, how-ever, in the view of the imagination which runsthrough their writings. The imagination {imag-inatio) is looked upon as, in various ways,mediating between sensation and reason; itcompletes the detached data of sense, buildingthem up into ideas, and offers preliminaryschemata or ideal constructions to the is an anticipation—and on the whole aclearer statement—of Kants view of theschematising imagination; it also suggests thevery modern doctrine of the assumptive andexperimental function of the imagination, withthe application of that view in the
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