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.

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• James Mark Baldwin:

  The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears,

• James Mark Baldwin:

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

• James Mark Baldwin:

  The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves th

• James Mark Baldwin:

  Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compro

• James Mark Baldwin:

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

• James Mark Baldwin:

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

• James Mark Baldwin:

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

• James Mark Baldwin:

  Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential

• James Mark Baldwin:

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

• James Mark Baldwin:

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