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The Will to Believe

William James

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1. Page 310. Gurney shares, therefore, with Janet and Binet, the credit of demonstrating the simul
2. Page 311. Apparitions, on this 'telepathic' theory, may be called 'objective' facts, although t
3. Page 311. dual will die at all on any specified day; and the national death-rate gives that pro
4. Page 313. The next topic worth mentioning in the Proceedings is the discussion of the physical
5. Page 314. In the case of Mrs. Piper, not a physical but a trance medium, we seem to have no cho
6. Page 315. Passing from papers based on observation to papers based on narrative, we have a numb
7. Page 316. The ordinary consciousness Mr. Myers likens to the visible part of the solar spectrum
8. Page 317. One's reaction on hearsay testimony is always determined by one's own experience. Mos
9. Page 317. Hence I think that the sort of loathing—no milder word will do—which the very words '
10. Page 317. s, if they were independent of one another, and came from different quarters. Now, th
11. Page 318. But it is a miserable thing for a question of truth to be confined to mere presumptio
12. Page 320. We all, scientists and non-scientists, live on some inclined plane of credulity. The
13. Page 320. And here is the real instructiveness of Messrs. Myers and Gurney's work. They are try
14. Page 321. I have myself, as American agent for the census, collected hundreds of cases of hallu
15. Page 321. A subconscious something may also preserve experiences to which we do not openly atte
16. Page 322. Now, the effect is doubtless due to the same hallucinatory mechanism; but the source
17. Page 323. Thousands of sensitive organizations in the United States to-day live as steadily in
18. Page 324. Now, of course, we must all admit that the excesses to which the romantic and persona
19. Page 324. nificance seems to be wholly for personal life. Those who preferentially attend to th
20. Page 326. I will even go one step farther. When from our present advanced standpoint we look ba
21. Page 326. ondition of events, this rigorous belief that in its own essential and innermost natu
22. Page 329. INDEX. ABSOLUTISM, 12, 30. Abstract conceptions, 219. Action, as a measure of belief,
23. Page 329. Ethical standards, 205; diversity of, 200. Ethics, its three questions, 185. Evidence
24. Page 329. of things, its ground, 257. Indeterminism, 150. Individual differences, 259. Individu
25. Page 329. Pugnacity, 49, 51. QUESTIONS, three, in Ethics, 185. RATIONALISM, 12, 30. Rationality
26. Page 329. Variations, in heredity, etc., 225, 249. Vaudois, 48. Veddah, 258. Verification of th
27. Page 329. By the Same Author THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY. 2 vols. 8vo. New York: Henry Holt &
28. Page 329. Transcriber's notes: Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in c