Science and Religion in the Era of William James: Eclipse of certainty, 1820-1880, Volume 1In this cultural biography, Paul Croce investigates the contexts surrounding the early intellectual development of American philosopher William James (1842-1910). Croce places the young James at the center of key scientific and religious debates in Americ |
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Out of the James Household | 1 |
A Native of the James Family | 5 |
Science and the Spirit according to the Elder Henry James | 27 |
Groping toward Science | 45 |
An Education in Science | 61 |
The Shock of Darwin | 65 |
Darwinian Debates | 105 |
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Page iv - ... by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident. But this is a point, it appears, somewhat- above or beneath the understanding of the prefect. He never once thought it probable or possible that the minister had deposited the letter immediately beneath the nose of the whole world by way of best preventing any portion of that world from perceiving it.