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Samuel Alexander Quotes
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
Samuel Alexander

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Category:
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Date of Birth:
January 6, 1859
Date of Death:
September 13, 1938
Nationality:
Australian
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