Excerpt from The Philosophy of William James For reasons of space this little study of William James's philosophy has had to restrict itself to the essential core of his doctrine, and to omit many sides of his singularly rich and sympathetic personality. Moreover, I felt that James was so supremely excellent a writer that a summary of his philosophy would be best given so far as pos sible in his own incomparable language. I have accordingly aimed largely at efi'ective selection, and at stringing together his own expositions of his most important doctrines, with a. Minimum of explanatory comment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.