The Letters of William James, Vol. 2

38

The Individual, A Study of Life and Death. New York, 1900. This letter is reproduced from the Autobiography of N. S. Shaler, where it has already been published.

39

Mrs. O. W. Holmes had used the following translation of an epitaph in the Greek Anthology:—

A shipwrecked sailor buried on this coast
Bids thee take sail.
Full many a gallant ship, when we were lost,
Weathered the gale.

40

"And base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are."

41

Kitchen.

42

Although James had received the usual hint that Harvard intended to confer an honorary degree upon him, he had absented himself from both the honors and fatigues of Commencement time. The next year he was present, and the LL.D. was conferred.

43

"I have been re-reading Bergson's books, and nothing that I have read in years has so excited and stimulated my thought. Four years ago I couldn't understand him at all, though I felt his power. I am sure that that philosophy has a great future. It breaks through old cadres and brings things into a solution from which new crystals can be got." (From a letter to Flournoy, Jan. 27, 1902.)

44

The Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality.

45

There had been a celebration of Mrs. Agassiz's eightieth birthday at Radcliffe College, of which she was President.

46

On the Amazon in 1865-66.

47

An 8-page Syllabus printed for the use of his students in the course on the "Philosophy of Nature" which James was giving during the first half of the college year.

48

Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death, by F. W. H. Myers.

49

"The piles driven into the quicksand are too few for such a structure. But it is essential as a preliminary attempt at methodizing, and will doubtless keep a very honorable place in history." To F. C. S. Schiller, April 8, 1903.

50

Eusapia Paladino, the Italian "medium." The physical manifestations which occurred during her trance had excited much discussion.

51

The name of a student-society.

52

The horse.

53

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk.

54

These five lectures were delivered at the summer school at "Glenmore," which Thomas Davidson had founded. Their subject was "Radical Empiricism as a Philosophy"; but they were neither written out nor reported.

55

Aristotelian Society Proceedings, vol. IV, pp. 87-110.

56

James's answers are printed in italics.

57

"How Two Minds Can Know One Thing," Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 1905, vol. II, p. 176.

58

"Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic?" Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 1905, vol. II, p. 235.

59

This address, "La Notion de Conscience," was printed first in the Archives de Psychologie, 1905, vol. V, p. 1. It will also be found in the Essays in Radical Empiricism.

60

"My own desire to see Roosevelt president here for a limited term of years was quenched by a speech he made at the Harvard Union a couple of years ago." (To D. S. Miller, Jan. 2, 1908.)

61

The Life of Reason. New York, 1905.