Excerpt from The Psychology of Religion: And Its Application in Preaching and Teaching Psychologists were slow and late in beginning this application, but now they are working it out in all di rections. Recently some of the master psychologists have been writing such practical books. Professor Josiah Royce entitles his work on psychology Outlines of Psychology with Some Practical Applications, and such applications are suggested all through the book. Professor William James delivered his helpful Talks to Teachers on Psychology. More recently Professor Munsterberg has written several works on the prae tical application of psychology, notably his Psychol ogy and Industrial Efitciency, in which he applies this science to the choice of a vocation, scientific manage ment, the electric railway service, the telephone ex change, advertising, buying and selling goods, and to many other points in the field of business, in a most illuminating and helpful way. There is a growing literature Of such books, and they bring psychology down out of the clouds of theory and out of the laboratory and hitch it to the wagons of the world's work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.