| Abstract: | Reviews the book, Four Early Works on Motivation by Paul McReynolds (1969). This volume, as the title indicates, contains four early works on motivation. The works are Francis Hutcheson's An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, etc. (1726), Book I of the same author's A System of Moral Philosophy (1755), James Long's An Inquiry into the Origin of the Human Appetites and Affections (1747), and Jeremy Bentham's A Table of the Springs of Human Action (1815). This work provides a number of reprints of interest to psychologists within a History of Psychology Series under the general editorship of Robert I. Watson. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
