Actually, I don't know where the rumor about William James got started.
The poem is by Dorothy Parker. (The first stanza, that is.) 

Nice sequel.

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Robin Pearce Abrahams              
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Likely wrote:

> 
> >William James scribbled down the Great Thought that had appeared in his dream.
> >  He later found he had written:
> >     Higamous, hogamous, woman's monogamous.
> >     Hogamous, higamous, men are polygamous. *
> >
> >This morning I found this on the notepad by my bed:
> >     Higamous, hogamus, alpha's dichotomous.
> >     Hogamus, higamous, p is continuous.
> >
> >*From memory -- anybody got a reference?
> 
> -David
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