Classicly Collection of Books

Laughter - An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Henri Bergson

This work, by Professor Bergson, has been revised in detail by the author himself, and the present translation is the only authorised one. For this ungrudging labour of revision, for the thoroughness ..

Nerves and Common Sense

Annie Payson Call

PEOPLE form habits which cause nervous strain. When these habits have fixed themselves for long enough upon their victims, the nerves give way and severe depression or some other form of nervous prost..

Power of Mental Imagery

Warren Hilton

In the preceding volume of this Course, entitled “The Trained Memory,” you learned that the memory process involves four elements, Retention, Recall, Recognition and Imagination; and the scope and ope..

Psychologie des foules

Gustave le Bon

Our previous work has been devoted to describing the soul of the races. We will now study the souls of the crowds. The set of common traits that heredity imposes on all individuals of a race is the so..

Psychology and Achievement

Warren Hilton

The men of the nineteenth century have harnessed the forces of the outer world. The age is now at hand that shall harness the energies of mind, new-found in the psychological laboratory, and shall put..

Sex and Society

William I. Thomas

These studies have been published in various journals at different times. They are reprinted together because there is some demand for them, and they are not easily accessible. In preparing them for p..

Ten Days in a Mad-house

Nellie Bly

Ten Days in a Mad-house by Nellie Bly...

The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind

Gustave le Bon

The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of the ..