The Letters of William James, Vol. 2

15

The Address has been reprinted in Memories and Studies.

16

For a short while MacMonnies's Bacchante stood in the court of the Boston Public Library.

17

These words were not employed in public, but were once applied to a well-known professor in a private letter.

18

A full report of the speech made at the Legislative hearing was printed in the Banner of Light, Mar. 12, 1898. The letter to the Boston Transcript in 1894 appeared in the issue of Mar. 24.

19

James J. Putnam to William James

Boston, Mar. 9, 1898.

Dear William,—We have thought and talked a good deal about the subject of your speech in the course of the last week. I prepared with infinite labor a letter intended for the Transcript of last Saturday, but it was not a weighty contribution and I am rather glad it was too late to get in. I think it is generally felt among the best doctors that your position was the liberal one, and that it would be a mistake to try to exact an examination of the mind-healers and Christian Scientists. On the other hand, I am afraid most of the doctors, even including myself, do not have any great feeling of fondness for them, and we are more in the way of seeing the fanatical spirit in which they proceed and the harm that they sometimes do than you are. Of course they do also good things which would remain otherwise not done, and that is the important point, and sincere fanatics are almost always, and in this case I think certainly, of real value.

    Always affectionately,
    James J. P.

20

That is, there was here no path to follow, only "blazes" on the trees.

21

The housekeeper at the Putnam-Bowditch "shanty."

22

Photograph of a boy and girl standing on a rock which hangs dizzily over a great precipice above the Yosemite Valley.

23

G. E. Woodberry: The Heart of Man; 1899.

24

James's house was number 95, his mother-in-law's number 107.

25

Augusta was the house-maid; Dinah, a bull-terrier.

26

It will be recalled that Davidson had a summer School of Philosophy at his place called Glenmore on East Hill, and that East Hill is at one end of Keene Valley. See also James's essay on Thomas Davidson, "A Knight Errant of the Intellectual Life," in Memories and Studies.

27

A gift which provided for building the "Harvard Union."

28

"You have never spent a night under our roof, or eaten a meal in our house!" This fictitious charge had become the recognized theme of frequent elaborations.

29

The World and the Individual, vol. I. Mrs. Evans was inclined to contend for Royce's philosophy.

30

The name of an American claret which his correspondent had "discovered" and in which it also pleased James to find merit.

31

The second volume of The World and the Individual. (Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen.)

32

Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. New York, 1900.

33

Memoiren einer Idealistin, by Malwida von Meysenbug, Stuttgart, 1877.

34

Recollections of My Mother [Anne Jean Lyman], by Susan I. Lesley, Boston, 1886.

35

Sister Nivedita.

36

Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery.

37

"Frederick Myers's Services to Psychology." Reprinted in Memories and Studies.