Volume 1

The letters of William James / edited by his son, Henry James.

  • William James
Date:
1920
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Credit: The letters of William James / edited by his son, Henry James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the Irish question than one would think to listen to their strong words. The cheery, active English temperament beats the world, I believe, the Deutschers included. But so cartilaginous and unsentimental as to the Gemuthl The girls like boys and the men like horses! I shall be greatly interested in your article. As for Uphues, I am duly uplifted that such a man should read me, and am ashamed to say that amongst my pile of sins is that of having carried about two of his books with me for three or four years past, always meaning to read, and never actually reading them. I only laid them out again yester¬ day to take back to Switzerland with me. Such things make me despair. Paulsen's Einleitung is the greatest treat I have enjoyed of late. His synthesis is to my mind almost lamentably unsatisfactory, but the book makes a station, an etape^ in the expression of things. Good-bye — my wife comes in, ready to go out to lunch, and thereafter to Haslemere for the night. She sends love, and so do I. Address us when you get to Switzerland to M. Ceresole, as above, ‘‘la Chiesaz sur Vevey (Vaud), and believe me ever yours, Wm. James. To Henry James. The Salters’ Hill-top [near Chocorua], Sept. 22, 1893. ... I am up here for a few days with Billy, to close our house for the winter, and get a sniff of the place. The Salters have a noble hill with such an outlook! and a very decent little house and barn. But oh! the difference from Switzerland, the thin grass and ragged waysides, the poverty- stricken land, and sad American sunlight over all — sad because so empty. There is a strange thinness and fern-
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