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His philosophical solution of the spiritual problem lay in his affirmation of the identity of the mind and matter and in his assurance that the entire universe can be regarded as readily from the point of view of its consciousness... as it can be viewed as inert matter.

— Edwin Boring A History of Experimental Psychology (1929)

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American psychology inherited its physical body from German experimentalism, but it got its mind from Darwin.

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Titchener interest lay in the generalized, normal, adult mind that had also been Wundt's main concern.

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

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