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Prayer for defense against the Turks Marko Marulić Written between 1493 and 1500 Svemogući Bože moj, kim svaka postaju,     Odvrati jur gnjiv tvoj, ter pomiluj naju. Ostavi zlu volju, pozri na virni puk,     Gdi tarpi nevolju svak´ čas od turskih ruk. Luge, sela, grade popliniv s´žegoše,     Muže, žene, mlade svezav povedoše. Ubiše junake koji se arvihu,     A ine nejake u sinžir vedihu. Sinke porobiše od krila materam,     I jošće činiše njih vašćine kćeram. Daleč rastavljaju od draga miloga,     Tih tamo prodaju, a simo inoga. Evo još oltari tvoji raskidaju,     I sve svete stvari tlačiti ne haju. U temple se svete konje uvajaju,     Prilike propete pod noge metaju. Svite, u kih tebi služba se činjaše,     Raskrajati sebi u kovadih jaše. Pehare kovaše od kaležev tvojih,     I još pokovaše pase sabalj svojih. Oto, ča je gore, divstvo oskv...

K. Krstic (1964) First published in Acta Instituti Psychologici Universitatis Zagrabiensis, no. 36, pp. 7-13. © 1964 Facultas Philosophica Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis. In technical and encyclopaedic literature one can find somewhat different information about when the word "psychology" was formed and who was the first to use it. In the main psychological and philosophical dictionaries, textbooks, and leading world encyclopaedias there are for the most part three different opinions of the origin of this term which, as the word denoting scientific or philosophic dealing with the phenomena of psychic (subjective, conscious) life, has now come into very wide use. All the three names connected with the formation of the term "psychology" are the names of the people of German origin from the 16th century. Two of them are of little significance: Rudolf Göckel and Otto Casmann, while the third is very famous and generally known: Filip Melanchton Rudolf Göcke1(1547-1...