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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

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Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

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Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

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Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

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Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

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The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

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