"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
"Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul."
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Source: James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
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