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  • The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

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  • Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

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    William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.108, Harvard University Press

  • Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.

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    "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.
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William James

  • Born: January 11, 1842
  • Died: August 26, 1910
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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