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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.

— Wilhelm Wundt

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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.

An Introduction to Psychology (1912)

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.

There are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.

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

The whole task of psychology can therefore be summed up in these two problems : (1) What are the elements of consciousness ? (2) What combinations do these elements undergo and what laws govern these combinations ?

An Introduction to Psychology (1912)

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