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"From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large."
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"The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes."

"Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life."

"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness."

"The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry."

"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world."

"The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology."

"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis."

"The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large."

"We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance."

"Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions."
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