A couple fun quotes from The Letters of William James (edited by Henry James, 1920)
>From a letter written to a fellow Harvard med school buddy Thomas W. Ward in 1867: "It seems to me that perhaps the time has come for psychology to begin to be a science -- some measurements have already been made in the region lying between the physical changes in the nerves and the appearance of consciousness-at (in the shape of sense perceptions), and more may come of it. I am going to study what is already known, and perhaps may be able to do some work at it." Another letter to the same guy, same year: "But my habits of mind have been so bad that I feel as if the greater part of the last ten years had been worse than wasted, and now have so little surplus of physical vigor as to shrink from trying to retrieve them. Too late! Too late!" (note that he was only 25). >From a letter to his son Alexander in 1900: "Your Ma thinks you'll grow up into a filosopher like me and write books. It is easy enuff, all but the writing. You just get it out of other books, and write it down." Patrick __ Patrick O. Dolan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 973-408-3558 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
