Produced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE SENSE OF TASTE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Our Senses Series—Editor, G. Van N. Dearborn_ THE SENSE OF TASTE BY H. L. HOLLINGWORTH, PH.D. Associate Professor of Psychology in Columbia University AND A. T. POFFENBERGER, JR., PH.D. Instructor in Psychology in Columbia University [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY 1917 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1917, by MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY -------------- Published April, 1917 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _To_ L. S. H. AND F. K. P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Few people, comparatively, however intelligent and generally thoughtful, have as yet stopped to consider the surpassing interest and the unique importance of Our Senses. Living gateways as the sense organs are between ourselves and our ever-changing surroundings, both spiritual and material, they constitute the channels not only of our _life-satisfaction_, but of all our immediate _knowledge_ as well. If, then, in discussing them, biological imagination and breadth and depth go hand in hand with technical knowledge of the highest grade, the volumes comprised should be both human and scientific. And these volumes are so, and will be. It is because of such possibilities that a series like the present, authentic yet interesting and inexpensive, must appeal to the intelligent man or woman of to-day. As contributions to psychology and to education their value is certain to be great, as indeed is indicated by the list of their authors, whom it would be superfluous to praise or even to portray. Small in number are the topics in all the wondrous range of the science of living things that are more alluring for their very mystery and romance than these same gateways by which we may go out into “our world” and by which this same great world may come into us and, for the little span of life, lend us a feeling of home-dwelling.