Excerpt from The Selected Letters of William James The letters of William James are used by permission of Paul R. Reynolds 8: Son, agent for the William James estate, and are copyright 1920 by Henry James, copyright renewed 1948 by William James and Margaret James Porter. Printed in the United States of America By American book-stratford Press, Inc., N. Y. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.