...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ....................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” .................. ... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...s, when they delivered their utterances? These are manifestly questions of historical fact, and one does not see how the answer to them can decide off... ...g; origin in automatic utter- ance generally—these origins have been stock war- rants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represe... ... and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so-called “Civilization,” as these things are now organized and admiringly believed in... ...uncon- sciousness was entirely real. He never spoke depre- catingly of any nationality or class of men, or time in the world’s history, or against any... ...of vestiges of sensible experience (whether inat- tentively or attentively registered), and for their elabo- ration according to ordinary psychologica...

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 ii The Golden Bowl Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ...ed action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straig... ...nd at least, by the manner in which the whole thing remains subject to the register, ever so closely kept, of the consciousness of but two of the char... ...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ...mong the younger friends of this couple a legend, almost too venerable for historical criticism, that the marriage itself, the happiest of its class, ... ...te—a beautiful personal presence, that of a prince in very truth, a ruler, war rior, patron, lighting up brave architecture and diffusing the sense o... ... once felt in noting on her lips that rarest, among the Barbarians, of all civil graces, a perfect felicity in the use of Italian. He had known strang... ...“to the British Museum—which you know I always adore. And I’ve been to the National Gallery and to a dozen old booksellers’, coming across treasures, ...

...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrar...

...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...qual opportunity university. Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY... ...rate fluxions of its advance? Judging by the past, and the change which is registered between that and the present, we know that it must be awake; jud... ...m, or its present value, but as regards its original gen- esis, or what in civil law is called the deductio. Under what 7 Thomas de Quincey angle, un... ...ts to con- nect his own human institutes with the venerable sanctions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historical... ...ions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law... ...er. His literary fate was what might have been expected. After the Persian war, the reputation of his verses rapidly decayed. Wits arose in Athens, wh... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPP...

...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...akes him mightier than ever. You can see the process for yourself in every civilized country today, where millions of people toil in want and disease ... ...he idea of forming a heroic bodyguard. He has trained his love children as war-maidens (Valkyries) whose duty it is to sweep through battle-fields and... ...any reaction that ever occurred be- fore. T ake for instance the hackneyed historic example of the austerity of the Commonwealth being followed by the... ... action to reaction. If he is a Puritan he looks upon the Restoration as a national disaster: if he is an artist he regards it as the salva- tion of t... ...fth at the ex- treme tiptop of their ranges, and for contraltos with chest registers forced all over their compass in the manner of mu- sic hall singe...

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...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ...........................................................................