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Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

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

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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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We take issue... with every treatment of psychology that is based on simple self-observation or on philosophical presuppositions.

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We call that psychical process, which is operative in the clear perception of a narrow region of the content of consciousness, attention.

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The results of ethnic psychology constitute... our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

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Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

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

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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.

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The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

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Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

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On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

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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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Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

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Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

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