...believe it to be shallow, and I can now state my reason in comparatively few words. That reason is that, so long as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal only with the symbols of reality, but as SOOT? as we deal with private and personal phenomena as such, ice deal with realities in the completest...

...brings to the hearer Conversion rather than instruction. Prof. W. James declares this fact clearly :1 "So long as we deal with the cosmic and the general,...personal phenomena as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the term." There is an air of superior magnanimity in the scientiiic pose that...

...is a passage in William James's Gifford Lectures which bears directly on it. ' So long,' he says, ' as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal...personal phenomena as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the term.' " He writes that last in italics. " We may recall, too, that well-known...

...mankind." He leaned forward and pointed a finger straight at Major Rooke. "'So long,' says William James, 'as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal...phenomena, as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the term.'" The gentleman who had introduced Mr. Reeves Smedley now rose to his...

...stand the test of science, James proposes this remarkable test: "So long as we deal with the cosmic and general, we deal only with the symbols of reality,...personal phenomena as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the terms." If this strikes any of us as reversing the true order, we must remember...

...stand the test of science, James proposes this remarkable test: "So long as we deal with the cosmic and general, we deal only with the symbols of reality,...personal phenomena as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the terms." If this strikes any of us as reversing the true order, we must remember...

...mankind." He leaned forward and pointed a finger straight at Major Rooke. '"So long,' says William James, 'as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal only with the symboh of reality, but as soon as we deal with private and personal phenomena, as such, we deal with...

...mankind." He leaned forward and pointed a finger straight at Major Rooke. " 'So long,' says William James, 'as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal...phenomena, as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the term.' " The gentleman who had introduced Mr. Reeves Smedley now rose to his...

...people today, to their experience of the world that is real and actual. In this context, James says: "So long as we deal with the cosmic and the general,...deal with realities in the completes! sense of the term."17 In recommending an empirical cast of mind, we are using the term "empirical" in a somewhat...

...time. For James, however, to be real is to be an experience or to be like an experience in nature: As soon as we deal with private and personal phenomena as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the term. . . . What we think of may be enormous — the cosmic times and spaces,...