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The Letters of William James, Vol. II - William James
The Letters of William James, Vol. II
by William James
CONTENTS
XI. 1893-1899 1-52
_Turning to Philosophy--A Student's Impressions--Popular
Lecturing--Chautauqua._
LETTERS:--
To Dickinson S. Miller 17
To Henry Holt 19
To Henry James 20
To Henry James 20
To Mrs. Henry Whitman 20
To G. H. Howison 22
To Theodore Flournoy 23
To his Daughter 25
To E. L. Godkin 28
To F. W. H. Myers 30
To F. W. H. Myers 32
To Henry Holt 33
To his Class at Radcliffe College 33
To Henry James 34
To Henry James 36
To Benjamin P. Blood 38
To Mrs. James 40
To Miss Rosina H. Emmet 44
To Charles Renouvier 44
To Theodore Flournoy 46
To Dickinson S. Miller 48
To Henry James 51
XII. 1893-1899 (Continued) 53-91
_The Will to Believe--Talks to Teachers--Defense of Mental
Healers--Excessive Climbing in the Adirondacks._
LETTERS:--
To Theodore Flournoy 53
To Henry W. Rankin 56
To Benjamin P. Blood 58
To Henry James 60
To Miss Ellen Emmet 62
To E. L. Godkin 64
To F. C. S. Schiller 65
To James J. Putnam 66
To James J. Putnam 72
To François Pillon 73
To Mrs. James 75
To G. H. Howison 79
To Henry James 80
To his Son Alexander 81
To Miss Rosina H. Emmet 82
To Dickinson S. Miller 84
To Dickinson S. Miller 86
To Henry Rutgers Marshall 86
To Henry Rutgers Marshall 88
To Mrs. Henry Whitman 88
XIII. 1899-1902 92-170
_Two Years of Illness in Europe--Retirement from Active Duty at
Harvard--The First and Second Series of the Gifford Lectures._
LETTERS:--
To Miss Pauline Goldmark 95
To Mrs. E. P. Gibbens 96
To William M. Salter 99
To Miss Frances R. Morse 102
To Mrs. Henry Whitman 103
To Thomas Davidson 106
To John C. Gray 108
To Miss Frances R. Morse 109
To Mrs. Glendower Evans 112
To Dickinson S. Miller 115
To Francis Boott 117
To Hugo Münsterberg 119
To G. H. Palmer 120
To Miss Frances R. Morse 124
To his Son Alexander 129
To his Daughter 130
To Miss Frances R. Morse 133
To Miss Frances R. Morse 133
To Josiah Royce 135
To Miss Frances R. Morse 138
To James Sully 140
To Miss Frances R. Morse 142
To F. C. S. Schiller 142
To Miss Frances R. Morse 143
To Miss Frances R. Morse 146
To Henry W. Rankin 148
To Charles Eliot Norton 150
To N. S. Shaler 153
To Miss Frances R. Morse 155
To Henry James 159
To E. L. Godkin 159
To E. L. Godkin 161
To Miss Pauline Goldmark 162
To H. N. Gardiner 164
To F. C. S. Schiller 164
To Charles Eliot Norton 166
To Mrs. Henry Whitman 167
XIV. 1902-1905 171-218
_The Last Period (I)--Statements of Religious Belief--Philosophical
Writing._
LETTERS:--
To Henry L. Higginson 173
To Miss Grace Norton 173
To Miss Frances R. Morse 175
To Henry L. Higginson 176
To Henri Bergson 178
To Mrs. Louis Agassiz 180
To Henry L. Higginson 182
To Henri Bergson 183
To Theodore Flournoy 185
To Henry James 188
To his Daughter 192
To Miss Frances R. Morse 193
To Henry James 195
To Henry W. Rankin 196
To Dickinson S. Miller 197
To Mrs. Henry Whitman 198
To Miss Frances R. Morse 200
To Mrs. Henry Whitman 201
To Henry James 202
To François Pillon 203
To Henry James 204
To Charles Eliot Norton 206
To L. T. Hobhouse 207
To Edwin D. Starbuck 209
To James Henry Leuba 211
Answers to the Pratt Questionnaire on Religious Belief 212
To Miss Pauline Goldmark 215
To F. C. S. Schiller 216
To F. J. E. Woodbridge 217
To Edwin D. Starbuck 217
To F. J. E. Woodbridge 218
XV. 1905-1907 219-282
_The Last Period (II)--Italy and Greece--Philosophical Congress in
Rome--Stanford University--The Earthquake--Resignation of
Professorship._
LETTERS:--
To Mrs. James 221
To his Daughter 223
To Mrs. James 225
To George Santayana 228
To Mrs. James 229
To Mrs. James 230
To H. G. Wells 230
To Henry L. Higginson 231
To T. S. Perry 232
To Dickinson S. Miller 233
To Dickinson S. Miller 235
To Dickinson S. Miller 237
To Daniel Merriman 238
To Miss Pauline Goldmark 238
To Henry James 239
To Theodore Flournoy 241
To F. C. S. Schiller 245
To Miss Frances R. Morse 247
To Henry James and W. James, Jr. 250
To W. Lutoslawski 252
To John Jay Chapman 255
To Henry James 258
To H. G. Wells 259
To Miss Theodora Sedgwick 260
To his Daughter 262
To Henry James and W. James, Jr. 263
To Moorfield Storey 265
To Theodore Flournoy 266
To Charles A. Strong 268
To F. C. S. Schiller 270
To Clifford W. Beers 273
To William James, Jr. 275
To Henry James 277
To F. C. S. Schiller 280
XVI. 1907-1909 283-332
_The Last Period (III)--Hibbert Lectures in Oxford--The Hodgson Report._
LETTERS:--
To Charles Lewis Slattery 287
To Henry L. Higginson 288
To W. Cameron Forbes 288
To F. C. S. Schiller 290
To Henri Bergson 290
To T. S. Perry 294
To Dickinson S. Miller 295
To Miss Pauline Goldmark 296
To W. Jerusalem 297
To Henry James 298
To Theodore Flournoy 300
To Norman Kemp Smith 301
To his Daughter 301
To Henry James 302
To Henry James 303
To Miss Pauline Goldmark 303
To Charles Eliot Norton 306
To Henri Bergson 308
To John Dewey 310
To Theodore Flournoy 310
To Shadworth H. Hodgson 312
To Theodore Flournoy 313
To Henri Bergson 315
To H. G. Wells 316
To Henry James 317
To T. S. Perry 318
To Hugo Münsterberg 320
To John Jay Chapman 321
To G. H. Palmer 322
To Theodore Flournoy 322
To Miss Theodora Sedgwick 324
To F. C. S. Schiller 325
To Theodore Flournoy 326
To Shadworth H. Hodgson 328
To John Jay Chapman 329
To John Jay Chapman 330
To John Jay Chapman 330
To Dickinson S. Miller 331
XVII. 1910 333-350
_Final Months--The End._
LETTERS:--
To Henry L. Higginson 334
To Miss Frances R. Morse 335
To T. S. Perry 335
To François Pillon 336
To Theodore Flournoy 338
To his Daughter 338
To Henry P. Bowditch 341
To François Pillon 342
To Henry Adams 344
To Henry Adams 346
To Henry Adams 347
To Benjamin P. Blood 347
To Theodore Flournoy 349
APPENDIX I. 353
Three Criticisms for Students.
APPENDIX II. 357
Books by William James.
INDEX 363
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
William James in middle life _Frontispiece_
Damn the Absolute
: two snapshots of William
James and Josiah Royce 135
William James and Henry James posing for a
kodak in 1900 161
William James and Henry Clement at the "Putnam
Shanty" in the Adirondacks (1907?) 315
Facsimile of Post-card addressed to Henry Adams 347
THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES
XI
1893-1899
_Turning to Philosophy--A Student's Impressions--Popular
Lecturing--Chautauqua_
When James returned from Europe, he was fifty-two years old. If he had
been another man, he might have settled down to the intensive
cultivation of the field in which he had already achieved renown and
influence. He would then have spent the rest of his life in working out
special problems in psychology, in deducing a few theories, in making
particular applications of his conclusions, in administering a growing
laboratory, in surrounding himself with assistants and disciples--in
weeding and gathering where he had tilled. But the fact was that the
publication of his two books on psychology operated for him as a welcome
release from the subject.
He had no illusion of finality about what he had written.[1] But he
would have said that whatever original contribution he was capable of
making to psychology had already been made; that he must pass on and
leave addition and revision to others. He gradually disencumbered
himself of responsibility for