"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
"After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany."
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Source: James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”
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