A Grammar of Motives (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Grammar of Motives (Classic Reprint)We sought to formulate the basic stratagems which people employ, in endless variations, and consciously or unconsciously, for the out witting or cajoling Of one another. Since all these devices had a you and me quality about them, being addressed to some person or to some advantage, we classed them broadly under the heading of a Rhet orie. There were other notes, concerned with modes of expression and appeal in the fine arts, and with purely psychological or psychoanalytic matters. These we classed under the heading of Symbolic.