At the end of the nineteenth century, in a graduation speech to Barnard College graduates, William James made the following statement:
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In my recent article on William James, he taught us How to Know a Good Man, and part of his argument referenced a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson:
Stevenson says somewhere to his reader: “You think you are just making this bargain, but you are really laying down a link in the policy of mankind.”
I was intrigued by that quotation, and I decided to return to the source material to read the entire quotation in context. Here’s what I found on page 20 of Stevenson’s fine book, Lay Morals:
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If we were to have a mascot for this Scientific Aesthetic blog where the Arts and Science converge, it would undoubtedly be the visage of the medically trained essayist, poet philosopher and Harvard professor — and brother of Henry and Alice and son of Henry, Sr. — William James.
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