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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature"
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Literary Period:
"Aestheticism and Decadence"
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"Edwardian"
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"Victorian"
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"Physics"
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"Population"
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Date: 1901-2, 1902
"Speaking generally, our moral and practical attitude, at any given time, is always a resultant of two sets of forces within us, impulses pushing us one way and obstructions and inhibitions holding us back. "Yes! yes!" say the impulses; "No! no !" say the inhibitions."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)