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"We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance."
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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."
"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."
"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena."
"In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments."
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