[67] He did mistake, as Mr. Chesterton's subsequent utterances showed.
[68] As to "Jimmy," vide vol. I, p. 301 supra.
[69] Cf. pp. 16, 17, and 220 supra.
[70] Dr. Miller writes: "These four evenings at the Faculty Club were singularly interesting occasions. One was a meeting of the Philosophical Club of New York, whose members, about a dozen in number, were of different institutions. The others were impromptu meetings arranged either by members of the Department of Philosophy at Columbia or a wider group. At one of them Mr. James sat in a literal circle of chairs, with professors of Biology, Mathematics, etc., as well as Philosophy, and answered in a particularly friendly and charming way the frank objections of a group that were by no means all opponents. At the close, when he was thanked for his patience, he remarked in his humorously disclaiming manner that he was not accustomed to be taken so seriously. Privately he remarked how pleasantly such an unaffected, easy meeting contrasted with a certain formal and august dinner club, the exaggerated amusement of the diners at each other's jokes, etc."
[71] His resignation did not take effect until the end of the Academic year, although his last meeting with the class to which he was giving a "half-course," occurred at the mid-year.
[72] "La Notion de Conscience," Archives de Psychologie, vol. V, No. 17, June, 1905. Later included in Essays in Radical Empiricism.
[73] "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth." Included in Selected Essays and Reviews.
[74] The story of the Committee for Mental Hygiene is interestingly told in Part V of the 4th Edition of C. W. Beers's A Mind that Found Itself. Several letters from James are incorporated in the story. Vide pp. 339 and 340; also pp. 320, 352.
[75] Mrs. James's niece, Rosamund Gregor, age 6.
[76] Memories and Studies, pp. 286 et seq.