[42] "I have been re-reading Bergson's books, and nothing that I have read in years has so excited and stimulated my thought. Four years ago I couldn't understand him at all, though I felt his power. I am sure that that philosophy has a great future. It breaks through old cadres and brings things into a solution from which new crystals can be got." (From a letter to Flournoy, Jan. 27, 1902.)
[43] The Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality.
[44] There had been a celebration of Mrs. Agassiz's eightieth birthday at Radcliffe College, of which she was President.
[45] On the Amazon in 1865-66.
[46] An 8-page Syllabus printed for the use of his students in the course on the "Philosophy of Nature" which James was giving during the first half of the college year.
[47] Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death, by F. W. H. Myers.
[48] "The piles driven into the quicksand are too few for such a structure. But it is essential as a preliminary attempt at methodizing, and will doubtless keep a very honorable place in history." To F. C. S. Schiller, April 8, 1903.
[49] Eusapia Paladino, the Italian "medium." The physical manifestations which occurred during her trance had excited much discussion.
[50] The name of a student-society.
[51] The horse.