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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. "
Wilhelm Wundt
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" 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. "
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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 attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology. "
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" Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life. "
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" Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. "
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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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Best
View
" Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. "
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Natural
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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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Now
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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. "
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Time
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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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Question
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" 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. "
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