| | 1 | Author: | Lippmann, Walter | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Open Mind: William James  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHIN a week of the death of
Professor William James of Harvard
University, the newspapers
had it that Mr. M. S. Ayer of Boston
had received a message from his spirit.
This news item provoked the ridicule of
the people who don't believe in ghosts,
but the joke was on Mr. Ayer of Boston.
When, however, it was reported that
Professor James himself had agreed to
communicate with this world, if he could,
and, in order to test the reports, had left
a sealed message to be opened at a certain
definite time after his death, the incredulous
gasped at the professor's amazing "credulity." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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