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• Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
• The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence…
• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
• The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
• All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge…
• The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
• The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
• Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
• In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
• In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
• Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
• Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

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