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" Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. "

James Mark Baldwin

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" The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. "

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" In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. "

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