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James Mark Baldwin (January 12, 1861, Columbia, South Carolina – November 8, 1934, Paris) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of evolution.

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Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

Important, Mere, Order, Soul

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Descartes, Firsts, Matter, Mind, Stands

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Balance, Feeling, Feelings, Ideas

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

God, Goodness, Ideas, Plato, Truth, Unions

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Definite, Mind, Psychology, Science, Thing

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Infancy, Mind, Periods, Prehistorical, True

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

Germany, Half, Illumination, Mystic, Renewed, Two

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Heredity, Machinery, Modification, Provides

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Appears, Progress, Race, Remember

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

Data, Dualism, Presupposition, Problem, Term

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

Conscious, Development, Personal, Psychology, Self

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Art, Reached, Reflects, Self, Use

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Appear, Consciousness, Individual, Self, Thought, Two

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

Logically, Mean, Proves, Savages, Thinking

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Period, Periods, Pseudo, Psychology, Science, Scientific