Alterations of personality , published in 1892, is one of the most important works by Alfred Binet, a French psychologist, among the pioneers in his field, and the inventor of the first practical IQ test, the Binet-Simon test, considered by the journal Science 84 as one of twenty of the century's most significant developments or discoveries. He was one of the founding editors of L'ann�e psychologique, a yearly volume comprising original articles and reviews of the progress of psychology still in print.

This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do not go deeply into it; nothing is more difficult when you analyse it a little. At first sight, it seems impossible to confuse things so far apart as a thought and a block of stone; but on reflection this great contrast vanishes, and other differences have to be sought which are less apparent and of which one has not hitherto dreamed.

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