L By William James THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: A STUDY IN PRAGMATISM: A NEW NAME FOR SOME OLD WAYS OF THINK- THE MEANING OF TRUTH: A SEQUEL TO "PRAGMATISM." 8vo. A PLURALISTIC UNIVERSE: HIBBERT LECTURES ON THE New York, London, Bom1912. MEMORIES AND STUDIES. 8vo. New York, London, Bombay, and THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY. 2 vols., 8vo. New York: PSYCHOLOGY: BRIEFER COURSE. 12mo. New York: Henry Holt TALKS TO TEACHERS ON PSYCHOLOGY: AND TO STUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFE'S IDEALS. 12mo. New York: Henry Holt & Co. London, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co. 1899. HUMAN IMMORTALITY: TWO SUPPOSED OBJECTIONS TO THE DOCTRINE. 16mo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. London: Archibald Constable & Co. 1898. THE LITERARY REMAINS OF HENRY JAMES. Edited, with an RADICAL EMPIRICISM BY WILLIAM JAMES LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK 1912 COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HENRY JAMES JR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 27 ANDOVER-HARVARD JUN 14 1912 ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY cb3,440 EDITOR'S PREFACE THE present volume is an attempt to carry out a plan which William James is known to have formed several years before his death. In 1907 he collected reprints in an envelope which he inscribed with the title 'Essays in Radical Empiricism'; and he also had duplicate sets of these reprints bound, under the same title, and deposited for the use of students in the general Harvard Library, and in the Philosophical Library in Emerson Hall. Two years later Professor James published The Meaning of Truth and A Pluralistic Universe, and inserted in these volumes several of the articles which he had intended to use in the 'Essays in Radical Empiricism.' Whether he would nevertheless have carried out his original plan, had he lived, cannot be certainly known. Several facts, however, stand out very clearly. In the first place, the articles included in the original plan but omitted from his later volumes are indispensable to the understanding |