“The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.”

—  Boris Sidis

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914), p. 106

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