ABSTRACT
Modern psychology, for some time past, has overstepped its initial programme, and has outgrown the scope of the intentions and hopes originally formulated by Fechner. The methods of investigation have become more varied, new fields have been opened, and problems have been attacked which were formerly regarded as inaccessible to exact research. The processes of psychic activity are being investigated with more and more precision, and attempts are also being made to analyse complicated psychic structures. We are no longer content to establish general laws; personality itself, individually and in its development, is already being made the subject of inquiry. As innate tendencies are of fundamental importance in the evolution of personality, it is of particular advantage to undertake researches of this kind in the case of persons who show themselves already in their early youth to be endowed in an extraordinary measure with spiritual or artistic capabilities.
