I think I may conclude, then (and I hope
that my readers are now ready to conclude
with me), that the pretended spirituality of
our emotions and of our attributes of value,
so far from proving an objection to the philosophy
of pure experience, does, when rightly
discussed and accounted for, serve as one of
its best corroborations.
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THE EXPERIENCE OF ACTIVITY(1)
BRETHREN OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION:
IN casting about me for a subject for your
President this year to talk about it has seemed
to me that our experiences of activity would
form a good one; not only because the topic
is so naturally interesting, and because it has
lately led to a good deal of rather inconclusive
discussion, but because I myself am growing
more and more interested in a certain systematic
way of handling questions, and want to get
others interested also, and this question strikes
me as one in which, although I am painfully
aware of my inability to communicate new
discoveries or to reach definitive conclusions,
I yet can show, in a rather definite manner,
how the method works.
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1 President's Address before the American Psychological Association,
Philadelphia Meeting, December, 1904.
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