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    4K, Yi 4. Ko Writings ff WILLIAM JAh. A Comprehensive Edition Boro, win av Iymonocrion.; John J. McDermott inctupine Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James | * The Modern Libary New Yorke The Will 0 Believe 1 THE WILL TO BELIEVES“ ‘In the recently published Life by Lelie Stephen of his brother, Fitz= James, there fs an secount of a school to which the later went when he was a boy. The teacher, a certain Mr. Guest sod to converse with his pupils in this wise: “Gurney, what i the diference between uni eatin and ranctifieation?Stephen, prove the omnipotence of Gus” fc. In the midst of our Harvaed freethinking and iillerence we are Drone to imagine that here at your good old orthodx College conver fation conties to be somewhat upon this order; aad to show you that we at Harvard have not fst al interest in these vite subjects 1 hve brought with me to-night something like a sermon on jst ion by flth fo read to you, mean aa fssay in justification of faith, 8 defence of our right to adopt believing stitudle in scigloes mat ter, in spite ofthe fact that ob merely log intellect may not ave ‘been coerced. “The Will to Believe, accordingly, isthe tle of my paper, have tong defended to my own students the lavfulaess of volun- ‘arly adopted faith; but as soon as they have got well imbued withthe logical sprit, they have as a rule refased to adit my contention to be lawl philosophically even though in point of fact they were person- ally all the time chock-full of some faith or other themeves. am al the while, however, so profoundly convinced that my own pesition 1

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