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Work title:
"The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature"
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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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"Twentieth Century"
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Date: 1901-2, 1902
"In the end we fall back on the hackneyed symbolism of a mechanical equilibrium. A mind is a system of ideas, each with the excitement it arouses, and with tendencies impulsive and inhibitive, which mutually check or reinforce one another."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1901-2, 1902
"Every individual soul, in short, like every individual machine or organism, has its own best conditions of efficiency. A given machine will run best under a certain steam-pressure, a certain amperage; an organism under a certain diet, weight, or exercise."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
