Religious Values and Intellectual Consistency

by Edward Hartman Reisner

1915 · Archives of Philosophy, 5

Studies religious values and intellectual consistency from its origin, to classical Christianity, the religion of idealism and the God-concept.

Origins of Professional Psychology in Canada (1925-1965)

by Edward C. Webster

2023 · FriesenPress

Edward C. Webster was one of the earliest vocational guidance and industrial psychologists in Canada. He opened his practice in 1936 and was also a long-time professor of psychology and university administrator. During the last decade of his life, he began to document his perspective on early professional psychologists—almost all of whom he had known personally—and the nature of the profession, its origins and evolution in Canada, and the interplay between the emergence of psychology as a profession and the development of the Canadian Psychological Association. Sometime after Edward died in 1989, his son and the executor of his estate, William G. Webster, found his drafts, notes, and correspondence with others. As a retired academic psychologist himself, William felt that his father had a most interesting story to tell. Working with his son, David E. G. Webster, William compiled Edward’s recollections of and reflections on the early years of the profession, those pre- and immediately post-World War II, and those through to the mid-1960s, when a pivotal conference set the trajectory for professional psychology and professional psychologists in Canada. With new information not previously published by Edward Webster or others, Origins of Professional Psychology in Canada (1925–1965) brings forward the thought-provoking, authentic reflections of a man whose ground-breaking contributions to applied psychology forever changed the field.

Laboratory for Liberty

by George Edward Frakes

2021 · University Press of Kentucky

This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventually, independence. The book illuminates the role played by committees in the growth of colonial self-government, tracing the committee system to its origins in the parliamentary committees of medieval England, then following the permutations of the committee system through the decades in which self-government emerged in South Carolina. Solid, penetrating, the book offers new depths of insight into an important process that had vital importance to the growth of representative government in America.