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...Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN...

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...E........................................................................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE................................................................

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...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ....................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” .................. ... often neurotic— Criticism of medical materialism, which condemns religion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All state... ...rom the emotional point of view.[20] We shall see how in cer- tain men and women it takes on a monstrously as- cetic form. There are saints who have l... ...o please him. He appeared to like (and I believe he did like) all the men, women, and children he saw (though I never knew him to say that he liked an... ...ver- biage of a good deal of the mind-cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trai... ...of sleep had come I had the habit of walking up and down. I see again that moon, half-veiled by clouds, which now and again illuminated the frigid win... ...es began the study of medicine, and in 1865 he joined an expedition to the Amazon. Before long, he wrote: “If there is anything I hate, it is col- lec...