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Works by WILLIAM JAMES, M.D., Ph. et Litt.D., LL.D.; Correspondent of the Institute of France and of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

The Principles of Psychology. 2 vols. 8vo. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1890.

A Text-book of Psychology. 12mo. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1892.

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

Is Life Worth Living? 18mo. Philadelphia: S. B. Weston, 1305 Arch Street. 1896. Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine. 16m0. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1898.

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. Gifford Lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902. 8vo. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1902.

The Literary Remains of Henry James. Edited, with an Introduction, by WILLIAM JAMES. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 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

COPYRIGHT, 1899, 190c

BY

WILLIAM JAMES

GEORGE H. ELLIS, PRINTER, 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 believe 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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