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Wilhelm Wundt Quotes: Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.
         

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.


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