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BY WILLIAM JAMES

The Principles of Psychology.

2 vols. 8vo.

$5.00, net.

New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1890.

Psychology: Briefer Course. 12mo. $1.60, Edcl. net. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1892.

The Varieties of Religious Experience. $3.20, net. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1902.

The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. 12mo. $2.00. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1897.

Is Life Worth Living? 18mo. 50 cents, net. Philadelpha: S. B. Weston, 1305 Arch Street. 1896.

Human Immortality: Two supposed Objections to the Doctrine. 16mo. $1.00. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1898.

Talks to Teachers on Psychology: and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals. 12mo. $1.50, Edcl. net. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1899.

Pragmatism. $1.25, net. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1907.

The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to Pragmatism. $1.25, net. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1909.

A Pluralistic Universe. $1.50, net. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1909.

The Literary Remains of Henry James. Edited, with an introduction, by WILLIAM JAMES. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. $2.00. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1885.

TALKS TO TEACHERS

ON PSYCHOLOGY: AND TO
STUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFE'S
IDEALS. BY WILLIAM JAMES

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

150

+36
42409

Educ 2058.97.

COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1900
BY

WILLIAM JAMES

GEORGE N. ELLIS CO., PRINTERS, 272 CONGRESS ST., BOSTON.

PREFACE.

IN 1892 I was asked by the Harvard Corporation to give a few public lectures on psychology to the Cambridge teachers. The talks now printed form the substance of that course, which has since then been delivered at various places to various teacher-audiences. I have found by experience that what my hearers seem least to relish is analytical technicality, and what they most care for is concrete practical application. So I have gradually weeded out the former, and left the latter unreduced; and now, that I have at last written out the lectures, they contain a minimum of what is deemed 'scientific' in psychology, and are practical and popular in the extreme.

Some of my colleagues may possibly shake their heads at this; but in taking my cue from what has seemed to me to be the feeling of the audiences I be lieve that I am shaping my book so as to satisfy the more genuine public need.

Teachers, of course, will miss the minute divisions, subdivisions, and definitions, the lettered and numbered headings, the variations of type, and all the

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