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After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
3. It has been found that young animals, birds, etc., depend upon the example and instruction of adults for the first performance of many actions that seem to be instinctive. This dependence may exist even in cases in which there is yet a congenital tendency to perform the action. Many birds, for example, have a general instinct to build a nest; but in many cases, if put in artificial circumstances, they build imperfect nests. Birds also have an instinct to make vocal calls; but if kept from birth out of hearing of the peculiar notes of their species, they come to make cries of a different sort, or learn to make the notes of some other species with which they are thrown. 4.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
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.
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.
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.
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.