The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

American Colleges there are Clubs formed by the students devoted to particular branches of learning; and these clubs have the laud able custom of inviting once or twice a year some maturer scholar to address them, the occasion often being made a public one. I have from time to time accepted such invitations, and afterwards had my dis course printed in one or other of the Reviews. It has seemed to me that these addresses might now be worthy of collection in a volume, as they shed explanatory light upon each other, and taken together express a tolerably definite philosophic attitude in a very untechnical way. Were I obliged to give a short name to the attitude in question, I should call it that of radical empiri cism, in spite of the fact that such brief nicknames are nowhere more misleading than in philosophy.
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